![]() ![]() ![]() This story of how two guileless youngsters navigate life will have a deep emotional impact on its readers. Crummey delivers profound insight into how individuals grapple with the forces of nature, not only in the unpredictable environment, but in the mystifying interior of their temperaments, drives, and character. He is the bestselling author of four critically acclaimed novels, River Thieves, The Wreckage, Galore, and Sweetland, as well as five collections of poetry. Crummey was born in Buchans, a mining town in the interior of Newfoundland. Against the sensitive portrayal of how two naïfs handle their budding sexuality, these fortuitous encounters underscore Evered’s and Ada’s innocence about life and the larger world. MICHAEL CRUMMEY is an award-winning poet and storyteller. Happenstance brings a captain and his cook to their cove-just in time to save a feverish Ada from near death later a ship full of sailors looking to replace their mainmast arrives, temporarily enlivening their existence. Evered and Ada Best endure inconceivably severe weather conditions their 19th-century livelihoods are at the mercy of nature-will they harvest enough fish to trade for necessary winter provisions? Besides the biannual visits of the ship, ironically named The Hope and run by an unscrupulous money-man, the brother and sister only have each other for companionship. In his fifth novel, Crummey ( Sweetland) imparts another heartfelt, extraordinary perspective on survival in the rugged isolation of his homeland of Newfoundland, this time from two pre-adolescent, newly orphaned siblings, after illness fells their infant sister and parents. ![]()
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