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The Summer of Oprah: What Is Left the Daughter
Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist.
When Wyatt Hillyer’s parents commit a double suicide by jumping off the twin Halifax bridges in 1941 (mother and father both fell in love with the same woman), the orphaned boy is shipped of to little Middle Economy (a real village in Nova Scotia) to start a new life with his aunt and uncle. Over the next few years, as the makeshift family becomes increasingly unstable, Wyatt falls in love with his adopted cousin, his uncle becomes obsessed with German U-boats, his cousin marries a German student, and the province becomes increasingly antsy as the war starts to hit closer to home.
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