false 8646 21 Canadian writer Mary Lawson's debut novel is a beautifully crafted and shimmering tale of love, death, and redemption. The story, narrated by 26-year-old Kate Morrison, is set in the eponymous Crow Lake, an isolated rural community where time has stood still. The reader dives in and out of a year's worth of Kate's childhood memories--when she was 7 and her parents were killed in an automobile accident that left Kate, her younger sister Bo, and two older brothers, Matt and Luke, orphaned. When Kate, the successful zoologist and professor who is accustomed to dissecting everything through a microscope, receives an invitation to Matt's son's 18th birthday party, she must suddenly analyze her own relationship and come to terms with her past before she forsakes a future with the man she loves. Kate is still in turmoil over the events of that fateful summer and winter 20 years ago when the tragedy of another local family, the Pyes, spilled over into their lives with earth-shattering consequences. But does the tragedy really lie in the past or the present? Lawson's narrative flows effortlessly in ever-increasing circles, swirling impressions in the reader's mind until form takes shape and the reader is left to reflect on the whole. <I>Crow Lake</I> is a wonderful achievement that will ripple in and out of the reader's consciousness long after the last page is turned. <I>--Nicola Perry, Amazon.co.uk</I> 2744160 2002 Crow Lake total:1733|5:327|4:772|3:509|2:113|1:12| 1733 6488 2372 310 4 1 false false Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 23:29:18 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 23:26:26 -0800 2008 poor me stories and I was always on the verge of wondering if this was goin...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Jul 18 11:46:19 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 11:46:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 20:21:47 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 20:22:18 -0700 2009 Back to the serious side of things I guess... I've been chewing on this book for a couple of days now, never being really invested in it to make a big to finishing it, certainly not devouring it like the last five books or so. I'm not even really sure how I feel about it. Its...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 03 13:54:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 13:54:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 21 13:44:46 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 13:44:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 23 06:49:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 08:41:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 15:11:20 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 22:50:48 -0800 2009 1
The narrator, Kate, is a 27 year old biologist with a very successful career. But that career does not fully satisfy her because she has loose en...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 04:40:09 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 29 10:30:42 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 05:47:54 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 09:41:32 -0700 2009
Crow Lake's first person narrator, Kate Morrison, gradually unfolds the story of her life in an attempt to tell "What took place between Matt and me". Matt, her older brother, has taken a path very different to Kate's - and Kate's guil...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 20:58:45 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 04:54:42 -0700 2009
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