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A haunting, atmospheric, snow-laden novel, a strange and touching love story with an undertow of rage and violence, this is an exceptional debut by a writer with an unerring eye for landscape and tragedy that is bred in the bone.
It's a long and winding road out of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and many of its inhabitants never really get away, held by ties of memory and blood. Innis Corbett finds himself back there, aged nineteen, deported from Boston to the isolated Gaelic-speaking community where he was born. A joy-rider turned car thief, he has no money, no wheels and only a handful of marijuana seeds with which to make his fortune in a hostile environment. Caught in a three-cornered relationship with his uncle and an older woman, and tempted by a sexy black Cadillac, the discovery of his secrets is not all Innis has to fear.
With terrible inevitability, he is pushed towards a deed that would violate his connection to the land and the Highland culture he came out of.
It's a long and winding road out of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and many of its inhabitants never really get away, held by ties of memory and blood. Innis Corbett finds himself back there, aged nineteen, deported from Boston to the isolated Gaelic-speaking community where he was born. A joy-rider turned car thief, he has no money, no wheels and only a handful of marijuana seeds with which to make his fortune in a hostile environment. Caught in a three-cornered relationship with his uncle and an older woman, and tempted by a sexy black Cadillac, the discovery of his secrets is not all Innis has to fear.
With terrible inevitability, he is pushed towards a deed that would violate his connection to the land and the Highland culture he came out of.