Crow Lake: FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF A TOWN CALLED SOLACE

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Held out as a gift and a promise, for many the land has been only a bitter burden, dragging down successive generations. While some are satisfied to stay in the isolated farming community, others want to explore the wider world, which is likely possible only by going to college or university. Clearly the symbol of a bond of closeness between Matt and Kate but the strong emphasis placed on biological study is evident.

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It’s a place where men are loggers, farmers or sawmill workers , or the one doctor caring for them all delivering babies, caring for sick children or trying to save the logger stabbed in a bar fight. And then I knew it had, because in the middle of all the uproar a movement beside me caught my eye and I looked down and saw Bo shaking so that even her hair seemed to vibrate.Great-grandmother Morrison' love of learning set the standard against which Kate judged everyone around her.

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She chose this life after a more than reasonable amount of experimentation and is as aware of its attractiveness as she is of the 'slack excruciated martyrdom' of having young children, and of the downside to an excellent husband: 'He makes me feel like a lower form of life sometimes. Twenty years later, the sacrifices they made and the promises they broke would continue to reverberate through their lives and the quiet rural community of Crow Lake. Luke has been planning to attend teachers’ college, but he decides to forgo higher education and keep the family together instead, allowing Matt to finish high school and earn a university scholarship.The opening paragraph is a stunner: My great-grandmother Morrison fixed a book rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. It’s a place where people stay, or where people leave and are drawn back by some inexplicable thing that makes them want to be there.

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Kate says in the book, ‘By the following September the ponds themselves would have been desecrated twice over, as far as I was concerned, and for some years after that I did not visit them at all. A few passages coil toward melodrama, and one inelegant line after a rape seems jarringly modern, but the spell holds fast. I genuinely have no idea where that image came from but it raised so many questions – what’s in the boxes, who’s the man, why is the child standing at the window, what is she feeling as she watches the man – that I had to carry on and find the answers.Kate's older brother Luke, 19 years old and a diligent student, has just won a scholarship for teacher's college -- a sort of miracle for a family in which finishing high school was a luxury only earned after generations of sacrifice and toil. She has written two novels, A Singing Tree and Better Than Life, and is at work on a third, Nola Mardling. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book that when she looked up, she found that it was half past midnight and she had spun for half an hour on the Sabbath day. As a consequence of the events of her childhood, Kate is a rather judgmental, withdrawn young woman. I’ve read them countless times, trying to figure out how she does it; my copies of both of them bristle with post-it notes.