![]() Against the sensitive portrayal of how two naïfs handle their budding sexuality, these fortuitous encounters underscore Evered’s and Ada’s innocence about life and the larger world. ![]() Happenstance brings a captain and his cook to their cove-just in time to save a feverish Ada from near death later a ship full of sailors looking to replace their mainmast arrives, temporarily enlivening their existence. Evered and Ada Best endure inconceivably severe weather conditions their 19th-century livelihoods are at the mercy of nature-will they harvest enough fish to trade for necessary winter provisions? Besides the biannual visits of the ship, ironically named The Hope and run by an unscrupulous money-man, the brother and sister only have each other for companionship. ![]() ![]() In his fifth novel, Crummey ( Sweetland) imparts another heartfelt, extraordinary perspective on survival in the rugged isolation of his homeland of Newfoundland, this time from two pre-adolescent, newly orphaned siblings, after illness fells their infant sister and parents. ![]()
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