Through black spruce / Joseph Boyden.
Will Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now lying in a coma in a hospital in his hometown of Moose Factory, Ontario. His niece Annie Bird, beautiful and self-reliant, has returned from her own perilous journey to sit beside his bed. Broken in different ways, the two take silent communion in their unspoken kinship, and the story that unfolds is rife with heartbreak, fierce love, ancient blood feuds, mysterious disappearances, fires, plane crashes, murders, and the bonds that hold a family, and a people, together. As Will and Annie reveal their secrets the tragic betrayal that cost Will his family, Annie's desperate search for her missing sister, the famous model Suzanne a remarkable saga of resilience and destiny takes shape.
Maintaining a bedside vigil for her comatose uncle, Annie Bird remembers a painful search for her missing sister, while her Uncle Will, a legendary Cree bush pilot, ruminates on a tragic betrayal that cost him his family.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780297848417
- ISBN: 0297848410
- ISBN: 9780143116509
- ISBN: 0143116509
- ISBN: 9780670020577
- ISBN: 0670020575
- Physical Description: 359 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2009.
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
Awards Note: | Scotiabank Giller Prize, 2008 |
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Subject: | Cree Indians > Fiction. Coma > Patients > Fiction. Ontario > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Caswell County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Gunn Memorial Public Library | F BOY (Text) | 34621200165937 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |