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      Beginning of Was

      by Ania Szado
      Published
      Feb 2004
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      272
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      Marta has grown up in the midst of loss, and has learned to adapt and thrive. But when her young daughter and alcoholic husband die in a car wreck, there is no way to cope. She flees her small Ontario town, her home, her memories...and finds herself on the doorstep of a church in downtown Toronto, with no place else to turn.

      She develops tentative relationships at the margins of this community, growing close to an old woman who is preparing to die and to a young girl her own daughter's age. But there is no escaping the past. Memories insinuate themselves into her new life. The struggle between memory and experience, between life and death, begins to dominate her thoughts. Only by reliving her own story can she find the means and the strength to shape a future.

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      First Edition Feb 2004 Penguin (Canada) ISBN13 9780143017295 ISBN10 0143017292
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