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Taanishi & Welcome to the Chamonix Valley in the French Alps!
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From award-winning author Jen Ferguson (Métis) comes the luminous story of a family steeped in grief and love.
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When Tatum Nova Lambert boards a plane to Chamonix, a town in the French Alps, she has one half-formed plan: to drag her Michelin-star-winning dad home. Since her older sister Bronwyn’s death a year ago, Tate and her dad don’t talk. They barely even text. So when he doesn’t pick her up at the transit station like he said he would, it’s no surprise.
What is a complete and very unwelcome surprise? Her dad is unexpectedly living in Bronwyn’s apartment, and Tate discovers she’ll be sleeping in her sister’s bed—the one Bronwyn died in. In the apartment and at her dad’s restaurant, it’s hard to bear both her dad’s broken promises and her sister’s ghost.
While trying to untangle the secret life Tate’s sister left behind, Tate meets Agatha, a schedule-obsessed Olympic ski-jump hopeful, and Beetle, a pickpocket and general teenaged dirtbag. As the unlikely trio explore in the mountains’ shadow, Tate brings her distinct kind of chaos to everyone’s lives—all while she tries to figure out if she can forgive her dad and her sister for leaving her behind.
Discover the evocative storytelling and emotion from the author of The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, which was the winner of the Governor General's Award, a Stonewall Award honor book, and a Morris Award finalist, as well as Those Pink Mountain Nights, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year!
Dear friends and foes:
When it comes to my stories, I have a policy. It’s basic: the readers matter most.
This means that while the book in your hands takes you on a journey, one about deep grief, and about being misunderstood by almost all the people in your life that should understand you, or at least, the very least, be trying to actively understand you, and while this book includes some anti-Indigenous actions and sentiments, discussions of alcoholism, and it includes a trans teen who doesn’t have what he needs from his parents and is living rough, here’s the thing: when it comes to reading this book, I’m always here for you and your well-being first.
Read it now, read it later, read it never, it’s all good with me.
This book is here when you’re ready.
The mountain is waiting for you.
<3 Jen
