Divisadero

by Michael Ondaatje

In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence, of both hand and heart - that sets fire to the rest of their lives.

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