Akin : a novel / Emma Donoghue.

By:

Donoghue, Emma, 1969-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2019.Edition: 1st Canadian edDescription: 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781443458948 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Psychological fiction.

DDC classification:

[Fic] 23

Summary: Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hach�e to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Fiction	FIC DON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		33321003172740

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Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hach�e to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.

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