This is a brutally bleak story of two siblings, Chase and Haven, growing up in a world of squalor, alcoholism and violence. Chase survives because he has Haven watching out for him, teaching him when to say yes and when to keep silent. Haven, meanwhile, makes it through because Chase needs her to. In an interview with the author in the Ottawa Citizen, Bruce Deachman writes: 'Yet while Chase and Haven's childhood is one that most people can only imagine, Blouin, 48 and an English and religion teacher at St.
