Publisher's Synopsis
Damaged by drugs from childhood when she was medicated with painkillers and brandy for PMS, Bella struggles with a damaged psyche and is unable to function in society.
Confronted in university with new addictions to marijuana and LSD, she also discovers hashish, cocaine and peyote. Lost in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas, she sleeps in parks until she discovers a food co-op where she learns the healing properties of plant medicine. Returning to the northern forests of Ontario, Bella rediscovers her love of the forests, lakes, rivers, streams and flowers. Will Bella reinvent herself, or will she succumb to the painful addictions that have destroyed her spirit?
Hilarious, farcical, and absurd. Too Late to Barter is a satirical novel. Marcia Maguire holds hands with Bella and new stories, poems and songs emerge with funny people getting locked in Walmart shopping carts and Great Horned Owls being saddled to ride the heavens with human cargo.
