My first cousin, Sharon's daughter had a book published! They are Mormon and for many years lived in Smithers, B. C. Kira was the fourth of seven children in the family. She is a year older than Cheryl.
Kira lives in California with her husband Brad and their four children. Brad works for the Wall Street Journal as Editor in the Technology Bureau in San Francisco.
According to Sharon, Kira changed her name in the book to Kate. She was told to lower her age in the book. It was her life during her four months summer break from university. She went to university in the US and came home to small town life in Smithers. Sharon said because they were so remote, Kira saved all her wages and it paid for the next school year.
Sharon told me it would take her two hours to visit the girls when they worked at Babine. It was a dirt road and she would fill the car with her friends still living at home, sing songs all the way and have a wonderful visit.
I'm not finished it but so far it's really good!
Kate starts her summer out in the wilderness like any other seventeen-year old—looking for adventure, romance and direction in her life as a young Latter-Day Saint woman. She succeeds in attaining her objectives plus a few bonuses: finding herself cruising on turbulent waters, wrestling slimy salmon, discovering secrets and falling for more than one dashing co-worker. All the while Kate battles a range of reactions to her religion. As she defends and questions her own convictions, she will have to find out where she belongs, who she really is and what (or who) to leave behind.
Set in the breathtaking backcountry of northern British Columbia, this Mormon, Canadian, burgeoning feminist falls in love, suffers profoundly, and finds more than she bargained for along the way.
