The Anthropologist's Daughter

How do you help someone who is grieving, when you are grieving yourself?After the death of her mother, ten-year-old Imogen Hearne moves from London with her older sister, Rosalind, and her father to Farleigh, a rural village in North Devon where her father's family has deep roots. Her father hides his grief by burying himself in his work at the university, while Rosalind vents her anguish by acting up and running off with friends -- leaving Immy to fend for herself.To pass the time,...
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How do you help someone who is grieving, when you are grieving yourself?After the death of her mother, ten-year-old Imogen Hearne moves from London with her older sister, Rosalind, and her father to Farleigh, a rural village in North Devon where her father's family has deep roots. Her father hides his grief by burying himself in his work at the university, while Rosalind vents her anguish by acting up and running off with friends -- leaving Immy to fend for herself.To pass the time, Immy decides to take after her father and become an anthropologist, studying the different ways that people manage grief. As she wanders through the village and the countryside to study the locals, she watches, listens, and makes notes, looking for clues she can use to bring her fractured family back together again.This moving prequel to "The Revolving Year" is a welcome reunion with familiar and much-loved characters and places.