Finding Emma: A Novel: 1

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I beg to report the death of Ella Lafford, an Indian Girl, at St. Joseph's Hospital here,” reads a letter from an Indian agent to the secretary at the Department of Indian Affairs in Ottawa. “The girl has been a pupil at St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Fort William and has been confined at the Hospital for some time. She was a member of Garden River band but, I am unable to locate the number of her father or mother.”

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But Emma is vastly different from the sunny toddler they remember. She barely remembers her parents or her older sisters. She is quiet and withdrawn, and, worst of all, longs for the very people who kidnapped her. In the movie, Miles says his daughter is removed and put into foster care because he had to work extra to pay for medical bills after his wife died. They move her from foster home to foster home so he can't see her again.I won't spoil on all the details, but the real star of this book is social issue that is at the core of Emma's issues. The issue is real and it is devastating and life-altering and absolutely unforgivable (this is my opinion and my opinion alone). I won't spoil the specific details, but I will say it involves cyber-bullying and cyber-bullying is never okay. I also recommend you read the Author's Note at the end of the book. I also wanted to comment on the author's suggestion that this is not necessarily appropriate for readers under 18. There are sexual situations in the book, but only a few and they are very tastefully written with only implication and not description. I say this because I feel the subject matter is important enough and written honestly enough that I would allow my teenager to read it to fully understand the implications of the issue. Those eyes... they were thieves. Stealing my breath, stealing my resolve to keep my distance, stealing the axis my world rested on and tipping it sideways. When the subject of preparing a memorial service was brought up, how did you feel? Do you think you could go through preparing this type of service for a child you believed was still alive? Do you think having a formal way of saying goodbye to Emma was necessary for the family to move on? This piece of literature was very interesting and contained excellent social, educational, political and moral debates around the ethics of cyber civil rights. The writer creates characters who are well drawn out and with a three dimensional consciousnesses of the central protagonists. Unlike many contemporary twenty first century writers, Ryan suitably uses the first person to create a provocative and emotive appreciation of the heroine. For me, as a female reader, I certainly appreciate and respect the protagonist's growth, maturity and journey toward self acceptance. This is definitely a worthy read for readers interested in discovering a defining piece of fiction in our 'Netizen' era; as a former teacher myself, I would certainly deem this syllabus worthy for a high school group of 15 and above. The Word Game was included in the Top 20 Novels to be Written by Women in 2015 by Good Housekeeping. The Word Game also won the 2015 USA Books Award for Best Fiction and her novel, The Memory Child was a finalist in the same category.

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They want desperately to reunite with Emma, and it seems like a miracle when they finally discover her. All this time, Emma’s been living with an older couple not too far from where they live. Archived long ago, the certificate lists the cause of death as typhoid fever. It also notes that Emma suffered from peritonitis — an inflammation of the thin layer of tissue covering the inside of the abdomen — arising from ‘perforation,’ or what’s more commonly known as a rupture.The beginning starts out with a girl having an internal battle with helping a stray cat. She seems terrified to open her screen door and let a stray cat in her home, or more essentially, into her life. The girl is in a self-inflicted exile from her co-workers, hometown, even her family. If nothing else, the documents show that both government and cemetery officials couldn’t even be bothered to get the girl’s name right. The child is alternatively referred to as ‘Ella Lafford,’‘Emma Laford’ and ‘Emma Lafort,’ leading to some confusion about the correct spelling of Emma's last name. The full message in this story is so real, so true -- and while the author states she, herself, hasn't experienced it, she has colleagues who have so she was able to draw on what she felt as well as what she learned from them. I loved Finn and his quiet sides. I loved his guitar side and his quirky side and his altogether great personality -- and I totally agree with the Rodgers number on a Matthews jersey, friend. I even loved Slinger and his crazy redhead self. Join us as we discuss our love of books, take part in our monthly bookclub, discover new authors and get to know some of your favorite better!

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For the last year, Emma Owens has been quietly detached from everything and everyone. Desperate to escape the demons that chased her out of her hometown, she’s learned that life here in Milwaukee is just less complicated and less tragic when it’s a one-woman show.Finding Emma is a funny, heartbreaking, beautiful story, my favourite part of the book was probably Oliver, even though I loved Finn, Oliver will always have a special place in my heart. I probably cried for three full chapters of this book and in one of the chapters I was crying about a cat. A cat I tell you! What has my life become? Emma was seven years old in 1907 when she was uprooted from her grandparents’ home in Michipicoten by an Indian agent — along with her older sister, Fannie Nolan — and placed in St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School in Fort William, Ont. Three years later, she ended up in a Port Arthur hospital.