In 1975, when twins April and Pilgrim are sixteen years old, their father recruits a young Bahamian doctor to minister to the town's residents. While racial prejudice keeps patients away from his door, the idle "Dr. Panama," as April and Pilgrim refer to him, spends much of his time with the family. While the relationship between the girls and the young doctor comes to light, the family is torn apart. Years later, the adult Pilgrim, long estranged from her family, returns to Massachusetts and discovers a country in financial crisis and her bucolic childhood home in shambles. It is in the midst of this decay that Pilgrim picks up the threads of her past and finds herself finishing what was begun three decades earlier.
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ISBN:9780864928610 (pbk.)
ISBN:0864928610 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print 373 pages : 21 cm
Publisher:Fredericton, NB :Goose Lane Editions,[2015]
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