Baggage

Acclaimed Newfoundland author Jill Sooleys second novel, Baggage, examines the step family. Drawing on humour and heartbreak, as she did in Widows of Paradise Bay, this story unfolds from the perspectives of three women Marie, mother and stepmother; Floss, Maries daughter who grew up in a broken home and must deal with her mothers second marriage; and Lolly, the rebellious stepdaughter and young single mother who has never felt comfortable in her place within the stepfamily. Baggage highlights the ties that bind the stepfamily in all its awkward, complex, and optimistic tension.