A generational family saga, rooted in a rural setting, alternating between the past and the present, nature playing a heavy role, the tension between Anglophones and Francophones, all the necessary CanCon requirements - I usually stay away from books like this. I was surprised though - it wasn't all that bad. It's the story of the MacDonald's, a large family living on Cape Breton, told by one their sons, a successful orthodontist. The family is trapped in the past - the past of Cape Breton but also of Scotland, and the narrator takes us through the family history, filled with heartache and death. A few of the sentences sink like stones in a pond, but the prose keeps the story moving along.
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