Shelter

I read Shelter by Frances Greenslade.  Actually I gobbled it up like a DQ cone on a hot summer night.  This story is about two sisters whose lives change when their father dies.  They live in the mountainous woods of British Columbia in a cabin.  They eat deer meat and squirrel, wild rice and maple syrup.  The younger sister, Maggie, was closer to the father.  He taught her that to survive shelter should be the first priority.  This tidbit comes in handy when their mother abandons them.  The sisters are in their early teens and she abandons them gradually.  She drops them off at a friend's house and sends money for a while.  Eventually she stops sending money and making any attempts at contacting them.  Maggie helps her older sister, Jenny, cope with being an orphan.  The characters are so alive I felt rude putting the book down to do other things.  This is a great story.