Clara's rib : a true story of a young girl growing up in a tuberculosis hospital / by Clara Raina Flannigan and Anne Raina.
Publication details: [Ottawa : Clara's Rib], c2010.Description: xviii, 280 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780986710803 (pbk.)
- 362.196/9950092 23
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Clara's Rib is the true story of a young girl coming of age in a tuberculosis hospital in the 1940s and '50s. Clara's story focuses mainly on her years growing up in 'the San' in Ottawa, Canada. Readers of all ages will be drawn into the evolving seasons of Clara's life of courage, faith, pranks, laughter, first love, despair and hope from the time she enters the San as a pre-teen until her departure as a young woman in her mid-twenties. Clara, the fourth eldest of ten children, was forced to exchange the daily camaraderie of her big, close-knit family for an even larger family in a hospital filled with TB patients. Discover why, when Clara left the San for the last time, one of her own ribs was packed in her suitcase"--Back cover.
"Clara Raina Flannigan was a child who was happiest when she was playing outdoors, collecting gopher tails and crows' eggs or playing baseball. She dreamed of going to Immaculata High School in Ottawa. Her long range goal was to get a good job and save money to buy a riding horse. Instead, at twelve years of age, she entered the Sanatorium with tuberculosis. She did not go to high school, get a job or buy a horse. She became an inveterate diarist, graduated from the school of hard knocks with honours and banked her positive outlook in order to buy life. Anne Raina has been published in magazines and newspapers. Co-writing Clara's Rib is her first adventure in publishing a book"-- www.clarasrib.ca
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