But navigating adolescence and its mysterious physical urges will prove more daunting.Ĭrummey’s new book, published in Canada in August and shortlisted for several Canadian literary awards including the Giller Prize, was inspired by one of those serendipitous collisions between writer and source material. Using wiles that would astonish their 21st century counterparts, the illiterate orphans survive the harsh landscape, fishing, hunting seals, picking berries. 12), Crummey’s absorbing, quietly provocative period novel about a brother and sister left to fend for themselves on a remote Newfoundland cove in the late 1700s.Įvered and Ada Best are just 11 and 9 years old when their parents and baby sister succumb to illness. The book is The Innocents (Doubleday, Nov. “And that is not what the book is about.” “I didn’t want to write a book about incest,” Canadian novelist Michael Crummey says, thoughtfully, amid the clatter of coffee cups and afternoon chatter in the lobby bar of a trendy boutique hotel on Manhattan’s Madison Square Park.
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