Bøger udgivet af 10,000 Lakes Publishing

Mary Claire O'Brien has hidden for as long as she can remember. During the week, with her father away in the city, Mary Claire feels like every other child - but on Fridays, everything changes. On Friday mornings, she rises onto her tiptoes and wraps her nightgown tightly around her legs to silence the swooshing sound she loves. She slowly becomes invisible. Hiding is how she remains safe; it's how she protects her mother. At ten years old, Mary Claire begs God to take her father away, but someone else has plans for him, and those plans will change everything. Years later, Claire Stanton struggles with the secrets of her past, secrets she didn't know existed, secrets her mother holds tightly, right to the very end. After Claire's daughter becomes sullen and angry, she fears history may be repeating itself. With this new information taunting her, she takes matters into her own hands and vows to make the abuser pay, no matter who she destroys in the process. Life is complicated. Secrets are destructive. But the truth is explosive.

Janice Matichuk first set foot on her island in Quetico Provincial Park in 1985. Located near the end of Minnesota''s iconic Gunflint Trail, this remote park is the heart of North America''s "canoe country." Decades later, and enduring beyond her untimely passing in the summer of 2020, Matichuk''s legacy includes being the longest serving interior ranger in the history of the park.Over the course of three decades, Janice raised two children on the island. She saved the lives of canoeists who tumbled into the frigid border lakes of Minnesota''s Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Ontario''s Quetico. She had been charged by moose, canoed nearly every inch of the 1.2 million-acre park, and watched many young paddlers grow into adults.This is a story about life inside one of North America''s most remote places. It is also a reflection of a woman who broke through barriers and refused to conform to societal norms. At its heart, however, it is an examination of the challenges that life presents. It is a testament to the fact that people''s experiences-good, bad, and on idyllic wilderness islands-all have much in common.