When Julia Scully was seven years old, herfather committed suicide, and she and her sister were sent to an orphanage. Julia sought comfort in the rituals of the orphanage-learning to knit, roller-skating after dinner, listening to OneMan’s Family on the radio-and tried to adapt. But two years later, emotionally damaged by the isolation and brutality of the orphanage, the girlsfollowed their mother to the near-wilderness of the gold-mining territory north.
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