"From here we're goin' up to Canada, so, um, where the, you know, where the beer runs frothier and the boots shag shaggier, and the bear rugs are still growling, and the different colored money makes sense." -Ani Difranco And yes, the rift in Mary’s friendship with Dolores has been healed.17 November 2002 TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HEARTLESS GIRL by Martha Brooks, Melanie Kroupa Books/FSG, March 2003 She has learned to take responsibility for her actions and she becomes an instrumental catalyst in turning several other people toward happiness. Although disillusioned by her daughter’s death a year earlier, Dolores has a rare gift for reaching out to people in trouble and helping them reconcile with the truth.īy the end of the book, Noreen’s heart has awakened.
The energy she derives from her instinctive love of nature is a source of healing for herself and others. In many ways, Dolores is the spiritual center of this book. It turns out that Mary has secret worries of her own about aging and illness. Dolores, 76, wonders why her longtime friend, Mary, seems so much more distant now.
Del, a shy farmer, is fixing up the house of his brother, who drowned years ago-and we find out why Del is so haunted by his brother’s death. Lynda is a divorced mom with a 5-year-old son. Noreen’s latest boyfriend, a handsome Cree named Wesley, misses her painfully despite her wretched treatment of him. She also has a knack for stumbling blindly from one disastrous mistake to another: she gets pregnant, steals, heedlessly injures a dog and accidentally starts a fire. Runaway Noreen, hardened at 17 by a rough childhood with an alcoholic mother and an abusive stepfather, feels no love for anyone or anything. Set in a tiny lakeside town on the Canadian prairie, this is the story of a diverse, intertwined cast of characters, struggling to overcome personal loss. By Martha Brooks – Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
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