The innocents michael crummey5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This creates an endless debt for items not worthy of the exchange. With the breaking of the first ice, they hunt seal, birds and small rodents, then move on to fish and finally harvest berries, skinning, drying and preserving as best as they are able.Ī ship makes its way along the coast in the early fall, making trades with the children for flour, molasses, and a little rum. The descriptions of the landscape parallel the bleakness of the children’s lives as they spend their first spring and summer following what little they collectively learned from their parents. The novel is set far up the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, in an isolated cove in the early 1800s. They might well have grown up innocent enough, but the death of their parents and their newborn sister Martha from disease during one exceptionally long and cold winter leave the children with very little sure knowledge about anything. “The Innocents” in Michael Crummey’s newest novel are Evered and his little sister Ada. ![]()
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