The Cure for Death by Lightning (Paperback)

from cornflakegirl

Books in Canada In The Cure for Death by Lightning, Beth Weeks, now an adult, reflects on a pivotal year in her life, the year she turned fifteen. It was "the year the world fell apart and began to come together again," with the Second World War raging in the world at large and the Weeks family w...

from ishtahar

This is the story of fifteen-year-old Beth Weeks and her family who live in a remote farming community in British Columbia during the Second World War. A plethora of eccentric and peculiar characters, a reserve of superstitious native Americans (or should that be Canadians?), a wild bear, a dead ...

from dir21

I remember this as painfully dull, enlivened only by an incident of bestiality. Which was disgusting, but the rest of the book was just snivelling by some woman who had never really achieved anything, and so that sex scene rather stood out. Unremittingly tedious. Except for the bit where the boy ...

from Alphawoman

I am not sure I liked this book. It had too much misery for my tastes. I understand that it was mystical and written in the vein that not everything can be explained. A tad too brutal and a touch annoying that everyone seemed to suffer from mental Illness of some sort. Would not recommend.

from lkernagh

This story has one of my favorite opening sentences: "The cure for death by lightning was handwritten in thick, messy blue ink in my mother's scrapbook, under the recipe for my father's favorite oatcakes: Dunk the dead by lightning in a cold water bath for two hours and if still dead, add vinegar...