“From the #1 bestselling author of At a Loss for Words, comes a passionate and sweeping examination of who we are as Canadians, where we’re going, and why Canada is…
“Many of the autumn season’s customs are historically related. Today’s Thanksgiving Day holiday is one such date. Although there was no government-mandated Thanksgiving Day holiday in Newfoundland at Confederation in…
Released from prison after ten years spent behind bars for the murder of his violent, alcoholic father, Élie Mestenapeo finds himself out in the world again, but alone. Banished for…
Congratulations on your new novel, Taking Down Names. I really liked how the title brings you right into the scene. Where did the tiat come from? I find titles very…
Your new novel, Point of No Return, is based on a real story. Can you share your own connection with it? In the early 1970s, I was a student in St…
Can you tell us a little about yourselves? We are brothers, born in Pushthrough, where we received our early education. Our family was part of the resettlement program, and in…
This memoir, subtitled Five Siblings Tell of Their Father’s Grief and His Struggle Back to Hope, is published 17 years after your father’s death. Were you working on it all…