Crow Lake: FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF A TOWN CALLED SOLACE

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Crow Lake: FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF A TOWN CALLED SOLACE

Crow Lake: FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF A TOWN CALLED SOLACE

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But Luke, who was never a strong student, instead decides to abandon college and get a job to keep his fractured family together. In among the narratives are set cameos of rural life in Northern Ontario, and of the farming families of the region. And then below us I suddenly saw a thin gray-white line, weaving about in the middle of all that nothingness, finding its way around the lakes and swamps and granite outcrops. Wade grew up in Minnesota and like O’Brien, he served in Vietnam so he could maintain or get more love from his peers and family. This small, isolated lake on the west side of Algonquin Park has a solitary campsite situated on a west-facing point—perfect for private sunsets (and skinny-dipping).

A touching meditation on the power of loyalty and loss, on the ways in which we pay our debts and settle old scores, and on what it means to love, to accept, to succeed—and to negotiate fate’s obstacle courses. I can still almost hear baby Bo clanging those pots and pans playing on the floor while big brother Matt tries to study at the kitchen table. I have pursued your dream single-mindedly; I have become familiar with books and ideas you never even imagined, and somehow, in the process of acquiring all that knowledge, I have managed to learn nothing at all. Now a zoologist, Kate is estranged from her family and her roots in Northern Ontario, feeling she has outgrown them.

Mary Lawson joins James Naughtie and a group of readers to answer questions about her novel, Crow Lake. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. After Susie’s death, her mother, Abigail Salmon, endures the adversity of losing her daughter, her family collapsing, and accepting the loss of the life she never had the opportunity to live.

Paddle and portage south from Cache Lake access point, or trek the long loop (35 kilometres) of Algonquin’s Highland Backpacking Trail. As the sections leapfrog over a couple of decades, we watch the uneasy boyhood of Arthur and Jake, and at the same time get to know Ian, the doctor's teenage son, who earns himself some pocket money working on the grown-up Arthur's farm. You expect your parents to make sacrifices for you – that is what parents do – but you don’t expect it of your siblings. The heart of central Algonquin Park is an area of mid- to large-sized wilderness lakes interconnected by centuries-old portage trails and meandering waterways.

Luke, Matt, Katie, and Bo Morrison, orphaned early in the novel, are struggling to make a life without their parents. We are meant to assume that Luke and Miss Carrington develop a romantic relationship at the end of the book. Poignant, funny, and utterly unforgettable, Crow Lake is a deceptively simple masterpiece of literary fiction. I don’t like to be shut away; it makes me feel I’m missing out on life, and I need – not want but need – access to the outdoors. The death of a loved one can result in a trauma where the painful experience causes a psychological scar.



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