So I turned away in the night. And going down through the graveyard found the place where my mother is buried, quite near Reggie.
There would be no more famine for her now.
Her famine is over.
And the rest?
All is cut out, muted, torn away.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank my editor, Maya Mavjee, and her assistant, Martha Leonard. Special thanks to my agent, Anne McDermid, and my wife, Peggy.
The author is indebted to the historian Don McKay and his book on Lumbering, and to Louise Manny’s Songs of the Miramichi.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Adams Richards’ previous novel, River of the Brokenhearted, was received to immense critical acclaim. Mercy Among the Children won the 2000 Giller Prize and was nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Trillium Award. He is the author of the celebrated Miramichi trilogy: Nights Below Station Street, winner of the Governor General’s Award; Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award; and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down. Lines on the Water, his memoir of fishing the Miramichi, won the Governor General’s Award in 1998. His 1998 novel, The Bay of Love and Sorrows, has been made into a feature film.
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