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What a devastating masterpiece!
Spanning generations, straddling significant historical events, and speaking more to racial diversity in Canada than any book I've previously read.
MacDonald's strength is in the way she writes her characters. Each are deeply flawed but are also equipped with certain highly redemptive characteristics that I found myself unable to hate/love them completely. From the sweet, yet flighty, Kathleen to the cruelly protective Frances to the responsible religious zealot, Me ...more
Spanning generations, straddling significant historical events, and speaking more to racial diversity in Canada than any book I've previously read.
MacDonald's strength is in the way she writes her characters. Each are deeply flawed but are also equipped with certain highly redemptive characteristics that I found myself unable to hate/love them completely. From the sweet, yet flighty, Kathleen to the cruelly protective Frances to the responsible religious zealot, Me ...more
It's been several years since I read this book, but the characters, texture and story still haunt me as though I had lived and experienced this sometimes tragic tale with them. Anne Marie MacDonald is a spectacular writer.
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Aug 02, 2012
Melissa Eisenmeier
marked it as to-read
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John Hanson
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