Author

Publication

2004 - House of Anansi Press, Toronto, Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

97,000 words, Guess

Page Count

388 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3558.A67 T78 2004

Description

The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at sixteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to adulthood, he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers' rapacious destruction of the woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, as well as with the working people who made their wealth possible.

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