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Nov 09, 2016VaughanPLKasey rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A historical, domestic epic following four generations of the Piper family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia from the late 19th to early 20th century. MacDonald’s heart-wrenching prose finds the threads of beauty even within the darkest recesses of humanity, as the novel deals with poverty, alcoholism, racism, child sexual abuse, and death, as the family members try and very often fail to break out of the cycles into which they were born.