The Fishers of Paradise by Rachael Preston
As Egypt Fisher learns, there’s a power to be mined in keeping secrets, and lies quickly take on a life of their own.
1930. The boathouse community of Cootes Paradise is under siege. The squatters' colony of shacks that lines the shores of Dundas marsh stands in the way of a Hamilton politician's City Beautiful plans. When a handsome drifter settles there, Egypt Fisher and her mother both fall under his spell. No one expects Egypt’s gambling con-man father to return after a mysterious six-year absence. But he does and he’s furious. Unhinged by jealousy and a harrowing brush with the local mafia, he reveals a family secret that sets Egypt's world off-kilter and poisons her relationship with her mother. When Egypt tries to turn the situation to her own advantage, her lies set in motion a series of events with heartbreaking consequences.
Based on the true story of a Hamilton, Ontario community doomed in the name of progress, Rachael Preston's compelling third novel follows the Fisher family to the edge of their darkest night, only to affirm, in the end, the resilience of the human spirit and the regenerative power of familial love.
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