Galore : A Novel (Paperback)

from mckait

Newfoundland always has a bit of a magical ring to me. When I had the opportunity to read this for the Vine program, I was intrigued. It takes place in Newfoundland,in a place called Paradise Deep. It opens with a beached whale being carved into for oil and food by the starving inhabitants of thi...

from brenzi

I don't know what just happened to me. I was minding my own business, my February reads already planned and stacked up on a shelf, when suddenly I was overcome by the desire for a spontaneous read, something that has been sitting on my shelves for a long time, something I haven't given a second t...

from KatieANYC

This is 100 Years of Solitude, with a lighter touch and and Old Testament flair, set in Newfoundland. Many Canadian reviewers have testified to the cultural accuracy of this multi-generational, folkloric novel, but that shouldn't make American readers shy away, because the setting also feels just...

from ParadisePorch

Michael Crummey was born & raised in Newfoundland, lives there still, and has set all of his meticulously researched novels & collections of short stories thus far in this beautiful, windswept, and harshly-demanding Canadian province. is set in the outport villages of Paradise Deep and The Gut, j...

from ParadisePorch

Michael Crummey was born & raised in Newfoundland, lives there still, and has set all of his meticulously researched novels & collections of short stories thus far in this beautiful, windswept, and harshly-demanding Canadian province. is set in the outport villages of Paradise Deep and The Gut, j...