Mina's child.

Mina's child.

By
Butler, Paul, 1964-

Publication Date
2020

Publication Information
Toronto : Inanna Publications & Education Inc.,

Physical Description
214 p.

Subject Term
Adultery -- Fiction.
 
Secrecy -- Fiction.
 
Canadian fiction -- 21st century.

Geographic Term
London (England) -- Fiction.
 
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.

Series
INANNA POETRY & FICTION SERIES
 
INANNA POETRY & FICTION SERIES.

Summary
Mina's Child imagines a second generation springing from the "heroes"' in Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 1921, Mina and Jonathan Harker's daughter, Abree, a student at King's College, London, starts to question the extraordinary adventures her parents claim to have experienced in England and the Carpathians. Middle-aged Jonathan Harker is haunted by nightmares that Abree assumes to be about her brother, Quincey, killed in the Great War. As the Harkers follow the thread of their unease back to its source, they are haunted by memories of Lucy Westenra, fiancÔe to Arthur Holmwood, and the manner of Lucy's death. Having lost her brother, Quincey, in the Great War, Abree refuses to believe in a clear dividing line between good and evil. Abree suspects her parents' tales of glory hide a profound sense of guilt, particularly about the unexplained death of their friend, Lucy Westenra. The Harkers' maid, Jenny, it transpires, has reasons of her own to worry about the chaos in her employer's household. She is carrying Jonathan's child, but Harker plans to evade all such responsibilities. Jenny, suddenly unleashed as a destructive force against the household, decides to make the Harkers face their hypocrisy.

Language
English

ISBN
9781771337212


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