aoeMy father has married me to a mad old man.a These words, written on a slip of paper inside a fading brocade collar, are a clue to the unlikely marriage of a Jewish remittance man and a 14-year-old orphan in a remote Newfoundland fishing station. More curious still are the connections that entangle a retired schoolteacher and an Israeli scholar almost two centuries later. When the bereaved Rosehannah Quint and her mysterious aoemistera retreat into winter quarters at the back of Irelandas Eye, the two begin to develop an understanding based on curiosity as well as upon need a" an understanding that works its way down the years. The Winterhouse is a compelling novel about finding oneself and creating oneas own community.
The year is 2150. Ninety percent of the world's population has been wiped out. Civilization has evolved to accommodate various cultures. In Newfoundland, a 'livyer' culture dominates. The population is a quarter of what it was and spread out over a greater area in small 'tiltons' - communities of people who live in the bush but travel out to the coast to trade. Viddy, the protagonist, has to learn to function in this new society, which takes pride in its mixed Inuit/Newfoundland heritage.
Robin McGrath’s poetry is alive with the rhythms of speech and storytelling. Her work sings, shouts, cries. A wry humour escapes from almost every corner of the book, whose themes of community, loss and anger never fail by moralizing or sliding into the dotage of self-helpism. Arranged in four parts, these poems travel from Newfoundland meadows and the delights of rural living, to experiences and memories of the Canadian arctic. They then move to Jerusalem and to a portrait of the Jewish faith and circle back to examine domestic life with poems on home and marriage
Knowing of an ancestor's confrontation with a legendary giant squid more than a century ago, Aquin White begins a high school science project on the mysterious creature and soon comes to learn of its importance to his family. Soon Aquin's world is turned upside down when he must come to terms with the ensuing death of his grandfather, his changing relationship with his best friend Emma and the fact that he may have to leave Newfoundland forever.
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