![]() ![]() The ending is not quite what one yearns for, though it is absolutely as it needs to be, in order to keep faith with itself. Penney constructs a beautifully paced story of physical journey which absolutely mirrors the internal journeys to self discovery of several of the central characters. The central characters also suffer displacement from themselves and their society – almost everyone is an ‘outsider’ in some ways. All the characters and communities within this book are ‘out of place’, whether the mainly Scottish settlers, the Norwegian ‘Amish type’ community or the Indians whose identity has been displaced by the more recent settlers. Set in Canada in the 1860s, it is primarily (to me, anyway) about displacement. No hype – as revealing, sparkling and spacious as its landscape ![]()
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