Book description
***2023 IPPY AWARDS: CANADA EAST FICTION – BRONZE MEDAL***
***2022 FOREWORD INDIES BOOK AWARD – FINALIST***
Steinbeck meets Miriam Toews in this insightful and illuminating debut about the decline of rural Canada and the meaning of community.
Welcome to Fearnoch, an undistinguished Ottawa Valley farming hamlet in its twilight. The…
Why read it?
1 author picked Fearnoch as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Fearnoch is about as different from The Maid as it is possible to be—except that, again, it didn’t seem to be my sort of book at first glance or even second.
I tend to shy away from books in which the dialogue has no quotation marks and those with scads of central characters, each of whom offers their particular point of view, sometimes a mere paragraph at a time. But McEwan’s prose was so compelling that I soldiered on, and was so glad I did.
The characters are almost all seriously flawed, yet you end up empathizing with them. And…
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