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Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Author(s): Emma Hooper

Location(s): Canada, Saskatchewan

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 20th Century

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This is a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents and an ocean. It tells of school teacher Etta, who settles in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression and of the two pupils who fall in love with her: Russell, a city boy who takes to farming despite his twisted leg, and Otto, who struggles in school but always tries hard – even when he’s sent to fight a war in a distant land. It is a story of love and joy, pain and passion, memory and forgetting – and one incredible journey. It is the story of Etta and Otto and Russell and James.

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There has been a spate of books about older folk going wandering. The 100 year old man, Harold Fry and this is another one in the “genre”. Did I enjoy it? I certainly struggled...

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