Out+of+Focus

=Out of Focus= by Margaret Buffie Left to raise her younger brother and sister, 16-year-old Bernice Dodd has a complicated life. Her mother is too busy lapsing in and out of drunken binges and attracting dead-end boyfriends to notice much else. Bernie’s discovery that her great aunt has left them Black Spruce Lodge could be a new beginning for all of them, if she can convince her mother to turn the property into a family business. As her family begins to heal, the real question becomes whether Bernie can let go of her resentment and give herself a new beginning. http://www.willowawards.ca/nomdescribe/focus.htm