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Sierra Clara: A Novel (English Edition)
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781067860301
Publisher: SkyHouse Publishers
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How does a girl learn to love herself when she feels like the shadow in her mother's story?
Clara grows up in a small Bavarian village where silence and duty keep things in order. But whispers travel fast. The close-knit community senses that Clara's story holds something that does not sit easily with their values.
Clara doesn't look like her radiant, blonde mother. She doesn't move through the world with the same ease and openness. She feels out of place.
As Clara comes of age, the unanswered questions surrounding her identity shape her friendships and weigh heavily on her first love. She becomes determined to uncover the truth: who her father is, and why he was never part of her life.
Spanning decades and reaching from rural, alpine Germany to Canada, Sierra Clara is an intimate, clear-eyed novel about inherited patterns and the quiet courage it takes to step beyond the roles society writes for us.
A story of a mother and daughter breaking cycles of dependency and quietly reshaping the world they were given.
An emotional novel about growing up in a society marked by prejudice and exclusion. While the story begins in 1984, the theme is now more relevant than ever. A must-read!
(Sameya Moro, Sensitivity Reader)
Published first in Germany in 2022 and nominated for the community award on the reader's platform LovelyBooks.
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