Claire Ross Dunn

At Last Count

A poignant and humorous tale of confronting the past and finding hope in the face of mental illness.

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A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022 AS FEATURED IN TORONTO STAR, ZOOMER MAGAZINE, AND ON CBC'S ONTARIO MORNING AND GLOBAL TV For readers who love Mark Haddon, Miriam Toews, and Sally Rooney Paisley Ratchford is trying to keep it together, but in eight weeks, the Toronto apartment building she lives in will be demolished. A last-ditch effort to reclaim her abandoned childhood home on Amherst Island plunges Paisley into memories of growing up in the tight-knit community, and into the obsessive compulsive disorder that has only ever offered a semblance of control. Her compulsion to count in sets of eight had little effect on thwarting bullies, her father's bad luck, and her mother's mental illness-all of which return to haunt her. When help arrives in the form of Paisley's old classmate and tormentor Garnet Mulligan, her predicament only worsens. For a shot at a future, Paisley needs to stare down her past, including all the habits that have stopped her from thriving. At Last Count is a wise and often laugh-out-loud funny tale that proves we don't always need to believe everything our brain tells us.

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Fecha de lanzamiento

15.04.2023

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Invisible Publishing

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Literary Fiction, Drama

Estados de ánimo

sad, hopeful

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