Described through the eyes of teenager Roddie Gillies, Shean is a coal-mining town somewhere on the west coast of mid-20th-century Cape Breton when...
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Mar 19, 2011
Chris
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It was a novel that read more like an interconnected series of short stories, all about the same people. It is the coming of age story of Roddie Gillies, his world ruled by his stoic grandfather, a man of genuine tradition, one of the original settlers of a town that since went boom and bust with the coal mines. I could feel its length as I read, but in the end it broke my heart in all the right places. MacDonald is a natural story teller and he connected all the emotional dots, providing a poig
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Apr 28, 2011
Angela
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It took me a long time to get into this book. Once I did, I enjoyed it.
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