Crow Lake (Today Show Book Club #7)

Friday, September 17, 2010

Crow Lake (Today Show Book Club #7)

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Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing–a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.

Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur–offstage.

Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she’s outgrown her siblings–Luke, Matt, and Bo–who were once her entire world.

In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one’s expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.

From the Hardcover edition.

!1: Best Buy I really, really enjoyed this book. I come from a town that is surrounded by farmland (although decreasing in size as the town booms) and grew up with lots of farmers' kids etc.

Well, this story is great if you want to feel like you are really being pulled into the farming life, with it's early morning, harsh winters, crop issues etc. It's written in a time where kids did not necessarily go on to school after high school, so that made it all the more interesting, as the kids in the book are really smart.

There is educational writing here, but not to where you might become bored. The main character tells us, in detail, about her favorite childhood place, a lake near her farm. That's all I'll say because I don't want to give anything away.

Crow Lake was a book I enjoyed so much, from cover to cover (okay, the ending could have had a little more closure imo) that I have been looking for similar books since. I did read her other book, but this one stands out.

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