Do You like book The Wreckage (2006)?
This book was highly recommended by my Canadian friend...it was a top seller and award winner in Canada. It is an ambitious but great read. I have never been to Newfoundland but I now feel as if I know it and somewhat understand the reticence of the locals, especially the hard working islanders. The story is one of a young girl's burgeoning adulthood and sexuality, while uneducated, she has incredible natural smarts and knows she wants a better life than that of her parents, Enter Wish - what a complex and interesting character. Having read Unbroken, there are some sections of this book that are familiar, with his tenure in the Japanese POW camp. The proximity to Nagasaki makes for an interesting twist aspect of the story and Wish's future. A sad story but an interesting one, where you really want to know what happens to these characters.
—Hope Sherman
so freaking good. michael crummey's brain is the most awesome place and if i could take writing courses from anyone in the world, it would be him! man, oh man! crummy has this genius ability to create characters and scenes that just stun with their vividness. i love the way he uses place as a near-character too. everything i have ever read from him is evocative and gets right under my skin. his prose is fluid, beautiful and haunting. the stories he creates seem so real and knowable. and he has a crazy understanding of people that he brings into his writing - all of the big things and little things, the nuances and secrets, dreams and realities that make people who they are...he will expose them, in the process having you confront more about yourself than usually happens in reading a novel. and maybe more than you will be comfortable with.
—Jennifer D
When I first picked this book up back in April I just couldn't get into it. I had a pile of books to read for uni and I needed something light and something that would pull me right in on the side for reading for pleasure. At the time this didn't satisfy those needs and I forgot about it for two months. I picked it up again a few days ago once the reading for uni was over and once I'd managed to round of the horrific last part to the Divergent series (which is what I'd ended up choosing as my light reading). I was only 40 pages in and was always planning to come back to it. It seems that time and place matters because this time the novel swallowed me whole. It devoured me and I devoured it. This novel shows just how intricate life can be. The elaborate plot woven beautifully over three hundred and something pages. Every thread spun out was followed up. Every question I had was answered. This book was just profoundly well written! It was absolutely beautiful! I did have to get used to the style of writing a little bit, parts of the story seemed to have a gleam of dialect I wasn't familiar with, but that only made the story more realistic. I also enjoyed learning a little bit of Canadian history I wasn't familiar with and it was nice to see some Canadian things I was familiar with too. After a two month break picking up this book was the perfect thing to do, because I enjoyed it wholly and tremendously.
—Alicia