Marie-Claire is sick, angry with her father for his emotional distance, and determined not to become friends with long time patient Signy, her roommate. In those days, antibiotics had not been discovered which could cure TB, so treatments like sleeping outdoors in the bitter cold and collapsing a lung to rest it were common. Sent to a sanitarium to heal, they are separated from their family and even each other. Marie-Claire and her younger brother contract tuberculosis during World War II in Manitoba, Canada. Great historical fiction/coming of age entry by Martha Brooks. Martha Brooks resides in Winnipeg, Canada, with her husband, Brian. Other personal details include: the surgery when I was eighteen that gave me health and my two voices as an artist a husband of forty years who is my soul mate and best friend a grown daughter who is an anthropologist–poet, a three decade career in writing and public speaking, eight books (the first is out of print), four plays, and-at sixty-three years of age-a joyful parallel career as a jazz singer and lyricist where I get to play with some of the best jazz musicians that Canada has to offer.
In fact, our summer home across the lake from where I grew up is the perfect place to grow a novel! The other influence was my own chronic illness as a child, forging my vision and opening me to an early understanding that suffering and miracles often exist side by side. The surrounding hilly countryside and the feeling that a living spirit moved within this landscape was my earliest artistic influence and I still write from and in that landscape. We lived on the lyrically beautiful grounds of a tuberculosis sanatorium in a sprawling many-roomed house with sleeping porches and a wraparound veranda that overlooked Pelican Lake. Mom was a nurse and Dad a thoracic surgeon. My sister and I were raised in southwestern Manitoba, near the U.S.
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