The Mother The Cure For Death Summary

Beth, a fifteen-year-old girl, is an outcast in her own home town. It all started when her father was attacked by a bear in the bush. But was it really a bear that caused him to go insane? The Natives of the area don't think so. According to Bertha and her family, the coyote spirit got him. It attacks when men are at their most vulnerable, and inhabits their bodies in order to do evil. A novel mixed with Native folklore and Canadian prairie small-town gossip, it binds you to Beth as she discovers how to overcome her fears-and exactly what it is she should be afraid of.
I thought the prologue of this story was brilliant, it was witty, thought provoking, and I liked how it reiterated the need people have to capture their life story. The mother
Beth Weeks is fifteen years old and lives with her parents and rebellious older brother. Strange things are happening: a classmate of Beth's is mauled to death; children go missing on the nearby reserve; and Beth herself is being hunted by an unseen predator. The valley is home to a host of eccentric but familiar characters -- Nora, a Native girl in whose friendship Beth takes refuge; Filthy Billy, the hired hand who is thought to be possessed; Nora's mother, who has a man's voice and an extra little finger; and Beth's haunted mother, who recipes are laced throughout the novel, providing luscious descriptions of food, gardening, fruit-picking and preserving, and remedies, both practical and bizarre.
When fifteen-year-old Beth Week’s family is attacked by a grizzly, her father becomes increasingly violent, making him a danger to his neighbors, his family, and especially Beth. Meanwhile, several young children from the nearby Indian reservation have gone missing, and Beth fears that something is pursuing her in the bush. But friendship with an Indian girl connects her to a mythology that enriches her landscape; and an unexpected protector shores up her