<p>Afterretiring from the heady world of academia, Sidonie von Täler has returned tothe small Okanagan Valley town she escaped in her youth for the lights of thebig city. The family orchard has since gone to seed, and ever decades laterSidonie still finds herself living in the shadow of her deceased older sisterAlice.</p><p>As she gets down to work sifting through the detritusof her family’s legacy, Sidonie is haunted by memories of trauma and triumph inequal measure, and must reconcile past and present while reconnecting with thefamily members she has left.</p><p>Karen Hofmann’s debut novelblends a poetic sensibility with issues of land stewardship, socialstratification and colonialism, painting the geological and historicallandscape of the Okanagan in vivid and varied colours.</p><p>Afterretiring from the heady world of academia, Sidonie von Täler has returned tothe small Okanagan Valley town she escaped in her youth for the lights of thebig city. The family orchard has since gone to seed, and ever decades laterSidonie still finds herself living in the shadow of her deceased older sisterAlice.</p><p>As she gets down to work sifting through the detritus ofher family’s legacy, Sidonie is haunted by memories of trauma and triumph inequal measure, and must reconcile past and present while reconnecting with thefamily members she has left.</p><p>Karen Hofmann’s debut novelblends a poetic sensibility with issues of land stewardship, socialstratification and colonialism, painting the geological and historicallandscape of the Okanagan in vivid and varied colours.</p>