Rabbit Ears - Softcover

A brave and unflinching look at one vulnerable young woman living on the streets of Vancouver s Downtown Eastside Kaya is adopted, multiracial, grieving the death of her father and carrying a painful secret. Feeling ill at ease with her family and in her own skin, she runs away repeatedly, gradually disappearing into a life of addiction and sex work. Meanwhile, her sister, Beth, escapes her own troubles with food and a rediscovered talent for magic tricks. Though both girls struggle through darkness and pain, they eventually find their way to a moment of illumination and healing. This powerful YA novel is rooted in the tragic life of the author s sister, Sarah, a victim of serial killer Robert Pickton and the subject of Maggie de Vries s Governor General s Literary Award nominated memoir for adults, Missing Sarah. Sarah s tragic experiences inspired the character Kaya, as well as an adult sex worker she meets on the streets. Vancouver s missing women form a chilling backdrop for the story.

MAGGIE DEVRIES s latest novel, Hunger Journeys, won the Sheila A. Egoff Children s Literature Prize and was called historical fiction at its best by CM Magazine. She has written eight other works for young readers, as well as one book for adults, Missing Sarah. A former children s book editor and writer-in-residence for the Vancouver Public Library, she now focuses on teaching creative writing at the University of British Columbia and on her own writing.