Why a Booktrail?
1990s: A character grows and introduces us to places in the city which change through her eyes as she becomes an adult and take on different meanings.
Where We Have to Go
What you need to know before your trail
A novel about the last days of childhood in a family coming apart at the seams and one in which Lucy Bloom searches for her place in the world.
Lucy at the start of the novel is 11 and dreams of freedom. She develops an eating disorder as she tries to find out what growing up is all about and what it means to be a woman. Her mother Joy is the central figure in her life, along with her father Frank and best friend Erin. But Frank’s lover – a former exotic dancer, is another influence..
Travel Guide
A nice jaunt around some of the more downtown locations of Toronto with Bathurst street and Queen Street featuring much to our delight. The snowbanks are something you have never seen before! They were like walls and stood several feet tall in some places. Daily reports in the newspapers told people to take extreme care.
We loved wandering around Toronto much like Lucy does and seeing the city through different eyes. Places that have one memory take on new ones and from cemeteries to shopping streets, it’s an interesting way to wander. Many parts of the book as seen through the eyes of an 11 year old girl have a special meaning that only young children of that age can give.
If you returned to where you yourself grew up then that is the feeling you get when reading this and is the essence of the whole story.
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Where We Have to Go
Author/Guide: Lauren Kirshner Destination: Toronto Departure Time: 1990s
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