memoir

"After her Father's third bankruptcy and the sudden estrangement of her two adult brothers, young Cathy Yurkiw was dragged away from a comfortable--if somewhat dysfunctional--childhood in Calgary to follow her father north. In Yellowknife, isolated from family and friends, she struggled to grow and put down roots, and to take care of her mother--whose depression and alcoholism were getting worse every day they stayed in the North."