Watermelon Syrup

by Annie Jacobsen, Di Brandt, Jane Finlay-Young, et al.

Book Overview

Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression.

Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences, happily wears Cammy's expensive cast off clothes, and is transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554580056
• ISBN13: 9781554580057
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"