This novel is richly imagined and compulsively readable, a riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching exploration of the bond between brother and sister.
But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them.Īs they fight for their own survival through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. *NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY The Globe and Mail įrom bestselling, award-winning author Michael Crummey comes a sweeping, heart-wrenching, deeply immersive novel about a brother and sister alone in a small world.Ī brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. *WINNER OF THE 2020 THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD *FINALIST FOR THE 2019 ROGERS WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE *FINALIST FOR THE 2019 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD *FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
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