From award-winning author Jen Ferguson (Mรฉtis) comes the luminous story of a family steeped in grief and love.
When Tatum Nova Lambert boards a plane to Chamonix, a town in the French Alps, she has one half-formed plan: to drag her Michelin-star-winning dad home. Since her older sister Bronwynโs death a year ago, Tate and her dad donโt talk. They barely even text. So when he doesnโt pick her up at the transit station like he said he would, itโs no surprise.
What is a complete and very unwelcome surprise? Her dad is unexpectedly living in Bronwynโs apartment, and Tate discovers sheโll be sleeping in her sisterโs bedโthe one Bronwyn died in. In the apartment and at her dadโs restaurant, itโs hard to bear both her dadโs broken promises and her sisterโs ghost.
While trying to untangle the secret life Tateโs sister left behind, Tate meets Agatha, a schedule-obsessed Olympic ski-jump hopeful, and Beetle, a pickpocket and general teenaged dirtbag. As the unlikely trio explore in the mountainsโ shadow, Tate brings her distinct kind of chaos to everyoneโs livesโall while she tries to figure out if she can forgive her dad and her sister for leaving her behind.
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Jen Ferguson is Michif/Mรฉtis and white, an activist, a feminist, an auntie, and an accomplice armed with a PhD. She believes writing, teaching and beading are political acts. She also has strong opinions about pastries and could essentially live off of pain au chocolat. Jen is a citizen of the Manitoba Mรฉtis Federation.