Book description
The Morrison siblings have been haunted by tragedy since the sudden death of their parents in an accident when they were young.
Kate found an escape from the legacy of their dark past in her passion for the natural world. Now a zoologist far away from the small farming community…
Why read it?
1 author picked Crow Lake as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There is such a visceral sense of place in this book. The author clearly knows Northern Ontario's landscape well, and this small town's remoteness and isolation is as much a character in the story as the protagonist and her family.
Orphaned at a young age, the book follows Katie and her siblings as they struggle to forge a life together in a town where their tragedy is just one in a long line of them.
Paralleling the story of her youth, the book weaves in Katie's now-adult life in Toronto, where she has escaped into a life of academia. When…
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