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Children of the Day (2005)

af Sandra Birdsell

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Children of the Day opens on a June morning in 1953, when Sara Vandal, convinced that her husband has been having a decades-long affair, decides that she is too sick to get out of bed. With ten children in the house (and a possible eleventh on the way), this decision sets off a day of chaos, reflection and near disaster for the Vandal family. Sara's husband, Oliver, heads to the town hotel and bar in Union Plains, Manitoba, where he has been the manager for the past twenty years-a position he suspects he'll no longer have by the end of the day. In an attempt to avoid the unavoidable, Oliver decides instead to pay a visit to Alice Bouchard, his childhood sweetheart across the river. Throughout the day, both Oliver and Sara reflect on how their lives collided - a car accident that brought them together and tore them from the futures their families expected of them. Sara (from Sandra Birdsell's previous novel, The Russländer) recalls her life in the big city of Winnipeg in the 1930s - a young Russian Mennonite woman lucky enough to escape the shackles of her overbearing culture. Oliver remembers his wedding day photograph-his the only Métis face in a crowd of Mennonites-and the precise moment when he suddenly grasped the enormity of his decision to "do the right thing." The Vandal children, too, must deal with this unusual disruption of their daily routine. Alvina, the oldest, secretly handles the stress of her family, her plan to escape them all, and her discovery of the world's evil in the only way she knows how. Emilie worries about losing her happy-go-lucky father while facing the town's heretofore hidden racism head-on. The boys live up to their family name by recklessly taking chances and literally playing with fire. And since her mother won't come out of her bedroom, Ruby, just a little girl herself, must take charge of the babies with danger lurking in every corner. By nightfall the extended Vandal family will be thrown together to work out the problems of the past and exorcise the ghosts that haunt them, which have all, in their own way, set this June day's events in motion.… (mere)
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Years ago, I read Sandra's book, The Russlander. This book is a sequel to that novel. Dry in some spots, but a well written book overall. ( )
1 stem BonnieLymer | Dec 6, 2019 |
Generally a good book although you need to keep your wits about you; multiple characters, points of view, and digressions, make for enveloping read. ( )
1 stem charlie68 | Oct 14, 2018 |
This is the story of Oliver and Sara Vandal, and their 10 children living in rural Manitoba. While the book covers a single day, there are flashbacks to enrich the reader's understanding of Oliver and Sara.

It is beautifully written and the author covers the perspective of both children (amazingly well) and adults as the marriage of Oliver and Sara is on the verge of collapse. ( )
3 stem LynnB | Mar 25, 2007 |
A wonderfully written, engaging, and quick read about a poverty stricken couple and their 10 children in rural Manitoba. The characters, the mistake of their marriage, and the multitude of failed relationships that surrounds them are woven into the story of a single, eventful day. Birdsell demonstrates a wonderful ability to write from the perspective of a child. ( )
4 stem piefuchs | Dec 31, 2006 |
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At first meeting neither the abrasive Sara nor the evasive Oliver is likable – Sara is retching upstairs (pregnant again?), Oliver has just fired his rifle into the doorstep – but the couple springs at once to life. Oliver is Métis, Sara is Mennonite (the younger sister of Katy in Birdsell’s previous novel, The Russländer), and the tensions, personal and racial, in their 20-year marriage have never been resolved.
 
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Children of the Day opens on a June morning in 1953, when Sara Vandal, convinced that her husband has been having a decades-long affair, decides that she is too sick to get out of bed. With ten children in the house (and a possible eleventh on the way), this decision sets off a day of chaos, reflection and near disaster for the Vandal family. Sara's husband, Oliver, heads to the town hotel and bar in Union Plains, Manitoba, where he has been the manager for the past twenty years-a position he suspects he'll no longer have by the end of the day. In an attempt to avoid the unavoidable, Oliver decides instead to pay a visit to Alice Bouchard, his childhood sweetheart across the river. Throughout the day, both Oliver and Sara reflect on how their lives collided - a car accident that brought them together and tore them from the futures their families expected of them. Sara (from Sandra Birdsell's previous novel, The Russländer) recalls her life in the big city of Winnipeg in the 1930s - a young Russian Mennonite woman lucky enough to escape the shackles of her overbearing culture. Oliver remembers his wedding day photograph-his the only Métis face in a crowd of Mennonites-and the precise moment when he suddenly grasped the enormity of his decision to "do the right thing." The Vandal children, too, must deal with this unusual disruption of their daily routine. Alvina, the oldest, secretly handles the stress of her family, her plan to escape them all, and her discovery of the world's evil in the only way she knows how. Emilie worries about losing her happy-go-lucky father while facing the town's heretofore hidden racism head-on. The boys live up to their family name by recklessly taking chances and literally playing with fire. And since her mother won't come out of her bedroom, Ruby, just a little girl herself, must take charge of the babies with danger lurking in every corner. By nightfall the extended Vandal family will be thrown together to work out the problems of the past and exorcise the ghosts that haunt them, which have all, in their own way, set this June day's events in motion.

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