Will Bird lies in a coma as the story unfolds. His niece, Annie, visits daily and sits and talks to him. She tells him her story of how she left their small town in search of her sister Suzanne. Both Will and Annie has something missing in their hearts because they have suffered losses. Each ...
Joseph Boyden is another of those young authors - such as, just to name three, Emily St. John Mandel, David Mitchell, and Adam Johnson - who seem unimaginably wise beyond their years in addition to having the increasingly rare ability to write beautifully and compellingly. Permit me to observe th...
For that is what it now is. Gabriel has excellent scouts and an excellent communications system of fast horsemen. He even has a friend who is serving as a freighter for General Middleton’s army, and all tell him that forces approach at a speed Louis did not think possible. Poor Louis. He is a gre...
Richard’s the tribal police sergeant, the big one sent when a drinking party turns violent or there’s a standoff between an abusive husband and his wife’s brothers. They send him when the situation calls for muscle. We call him the Equalizer. That he was here for Remi, his own blood, it didn’t ma...
The new arrivals beseeched me to perform this Mass and I do it with a warmth in my heart I’ve not felt since leaving Brittany. I can tell the new arrivals near burst to hear of my adventures and of this new world. But I will be coy in my sharing. I can tell them of what this dark world of sauvage...
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