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"Kin" traces the tangled lines of loyalty, tragedy, joy, and love through three generations of families. Beginning with Annie Macdonald, an effervescent seven-year-old living in Glace Bay in the 1930s, and ending with Annie's great-niece Hilary, an idealistic twenty-year-old in Round Island in 2000, the story is complex and riveting. The cast of characters is vast and varied—some with the Island’s deliciously cutting wit, some dour and upright, some frail, some resilient, and all inextricably bound by their share histories.
Kin" takes its readers minds from the seemingly innocent small town of Cape Breton Island, to the bustling streets of Montreal in a touching yet tragic love story tangled with love, lies, deceit, and jealousy and ultimately fate. |