I Won't Feel This Way Forever

I Won't Feel This Way ForeverIt's the summer of 1989, and Mia is on her own adjusting to life without her ex best friend, Lara. Summer vacation starts off well enough as Mia binges MuchMusic and learns how to jar fish with her aunty and uncle. Then her grandma starts feeling unwell. At first, Mia isn't too worried, but when a call comes in from the clinic to say her grandmother has to go to the hospital in Vancouver, everyone realizes this is serious. Mia and her mom and aunties

Even young readers

Rich with storytelling

and gratefully plant some seeds they’d set aside

as they sprawl in a meadow

Observing and embracing the cycles of her garden

legal testimony

It was time to move the remaining horses to safety--but getting them there would be harder than they thought

both continentally and globally

Redface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America

Who will earn the honor in this story

Spanning nearly fifty years

four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union