Storm Orphan: A Memoir

By Marsha Barrett

When Marsha Barrett is six years old, her mother dies of cancer. The youngest of three sisters in a Jewish family, she goes through a turbulent youth during the 1960s and 1970s, rebelling against her demanding and often absent father. Barrett depicts the heartbreaking yet humorous chaos in her household as her philandering father seeks a replacement wife and mother for his daughters. At age seventeen, disowned by her dad and feeling wildly un-mothered, Marsha flees her home in North Toronto to be independent.

Storm Orphan is about a strong-spirited daughter and her domineering father. It's about living through tragedy yet finding hilarity. It's about grief and joy. It's about losing and discovering love, but ultimately it's a story about finding home.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1525597612
• ISBN13: 9781525597619
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"