The nowhere places

"An incisive, skilful debut novel tracing the lives of a middle-aged woman and a teenaged girl through one pivotal year (1979-80) in North End Halifax. It's 1979, and June has raised her son, Gerald, into adulthood as an unwed mother. She is in middle life now, sandwiched between Gerald--who is developmentally disabled and still lives in the family Hydrostone rowhouse--and her aging mother, Margie. When Gerald goes missing, it throws the family i...