I received the book for free through Goodreads First Reads. Thank you Houghton Mifflin Harcourt! Beautiful. Haunting. Will be reading again; joining my top 15 adult books, post 1920. It has books, and writing, and a ghost, and dancing, and mystery, and murder, and a cat, and the ocean, and, Victori...
Such a different, yet compelling story, set before World War I in an isolated part of Canada, Witless Bay, Newfoundland. Fabian, grows up here, a place where everyone knows everyone else, where gossip is spread almost instantaneously, where it takes over a month a get a reply to a letter. The nov...
Yes, I liked it, but I doubt if it leaves any lasting impression. I did learn a bit about Canadian German submarine warfare off the coast of Nova Scotia during WW2. This story is a letter of love and explanation from father to daughter. The daughter did not grow up with the father. The family situat...
This is a rather varied collection of Inuit and other Northern people folk tales (though, there doesn't seem to be any Lapp tales). The tales are varied in style, which means the reader's reaction to the tales is going to vary. Many of the tales are sexual, and sometimes you wonder things like, "W...
For reasons I can't exactly describe, I really liked this book. I think I liked that while it wasn't anything new, everything was put together differently from what I'm used to reading. A lot of the story centered on how WWII affected a community, only this time, that community was in Canada. I don'...
Howard Norman is a great writer. His books are usely set in Canada, Nova Scotia or Manitoba. I would love to know more about his experiences; and this is a memoir. It is also bout Inuit tales.
Wyatt Hillyer has been estranged from his daughter for most of her life. One night in 1967 he decides to sit down and write a letter to send his daughter on her 21st birthday. The letter tells the story of his life, and thereby her life. It is difficult to describe this book. It has moments of d...
What I can say most about this book is that it really didn't *pop* for me. It was a short read, yet I have already forgotten the majority of the story.
My first Howard Norman novel. It reminded me of a British situational cozy, in that it was rather like a stalwart Canadian character drama. In a wartime Nova Scotia setting, populated by people with strong moral compasses buffeted by the strains of WWII, Norman crafts a finely wrought tale of the li...
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