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    This One Wild Life: A Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir
    This One Wild Life: A Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir
    This One Wild Life: A Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir
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    This One Wild Life: A Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir

    By Angie Abdou

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    From the author of Canada Reads finalist The Bone Cage.

    Includes research on the shy child, parent-child bonding, social media issues, and the benefits of outdoor activity and nature immersion.

    Disillusioned with overly competitive organized sports and concerned about her lively daughter’s growing shyness, author Angie Abdou sets herself a challenge: to hike a peak a week over the summer holidays with Katie. They will bond in nature and discover the glories of outdoor activity. What could go wrong? Well, among other things, it turns out that Angie loves hiking but Katie doesn’t.

    Hilarious, poignant, and deeply felt, This One Wild Life explores parenting and marriage in a summer of unexpected outcomes and growth for both mother and daughter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateApr 13, 2021
    ISBN9781773057149
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    Angie Abdou

    Angie Abdou is the author of seven books and co-editor of Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature. Her first novel, The Bone Cage, was a Canada Reads finalist. Her two memoirs on youth sport hit the Canadian best-seller list. Abdou is associate professor of Creative Writing at Athabasca University and a nationally certified swim coach.

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