![]() ![]() But before she does so, she shares with him the family history he never knew. Crummey's survey eventually telescopes to the early 20th century, when Judah's pale great-grandson, Abel, sequesters himself amid medical debris in an old hospital where his opera singer cousin, Esther Newman, has returned and resolved to drink herself to death. Judah's mystery is his appearance responsible for the great fishing season that follows? is only one among many in this wild place, where the people are afflicted by ghosts and curses as much as cold and hunger. He eventually revives, turns out to be a mute, and is dubbed Judah by the locals. But when a woman known only as Devine's Widow when she's not called an outright witch cuts into the belly, the body of an albino man slides out. After a lean early-19th-century winter, a whale beaches itself and everyone in town gathers to help with the slaughter. ![]() Crummey (River Thieves) returns readers to historic Newfoundland in his mythic and gorgeous latest, set over the course of a century in the life of a hardscrabble fishing community. ![]()
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