Canticle: A Novel Nature First published in 1965

First published in 1965

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola

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shadowy historical figure―despite having one of the most famous names in Mexican history

forced to confront the buried wounds they incurred as his children

Canticle: A Novel Nature First published in 1965A masterful debut novel following a spirited young womans explorations of faith, agency, and love in thirteenth century Bruges. Aleys is sixteen years old and unusual: stubborn, bright, and prone to religious visions. She and her only friend, Finn, a young scholar, have been learning Latin together in secretbut just as she thinks their connection might become something more, everything unravels. When her father promises her in marriage to a merchant