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Original Title:	Crow Lake
ISBN:	0385337639 (ISBN13: 9780385337632)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Ontario(Canada) Canada
Literary Awards:	McKitterick Prize (2003), ALA Alex Award (2003), Amazon.ca First Novel Award (2002), OLA Evergreen Award (2005)

Crow Lake Paperback | Pages: 324 pages

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Title	:	Crow Lake
Author	:	Mary Lawson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 324 pages
Published	:	January 13th 2003 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary

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Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing—a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent. Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur—offstage. Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she’s outgrown her siblings—Luke, Matt, and Bo—who were once her entire world. In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one’s expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, this deceptively simple masterpiece about the perils of hero worship leapt to the top of the bestseller lists only days after being released in Canada and earned glowing reviews in The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, to name a few.

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Good story. I liked Katie the main character of the story and adored her family members. Especially Bo. I could picture that child exactly! Touching but a short book. I actually wanted more.

Very basically, Crow Lake is the story of four orphaned children in a remote farming community. Kate, the third child, narrates the story twenty years later, looking back on their childhood from her now removed life in Toronto. Her relationship with her older brother Matt was paramount in her childhood and his passion for nature helped nurture her love of the ecology; in turn, leading to her profession as a zoologist. Through now adult eyes, Kate sees the struggles, heartbreak and hardship in

I feel such a commonality with this bookMary Lawson's style, the movements, the issues, the dialogue that is perfect pitch and as natural as breathingthat it almost renders me speechless. It's a story about children raising children. About no grownups. About being propelled into adult responsibility as a child and the delusions of survivor's guilt. There's a short Q&A with Lawson (http://www.marylawson.ca/qa-video/) where she qualifies the story as complete fiction. I believe her. The

Beautifully written novel of a family of four children who must cope with the death of their parents. The love in this story is redeeming and the words evocative. I especially liked how the author weaved the theme of what it means to be educated throughout the whole book but bringing home a surprise conclusion at the end. I am quite sure she is familiary with Dorothy Sayers and her thematic storytelling on relationships and education.

Told in first person, it's as if Mary Lawson has written her autobiography. What a grasp she has for portraying the sacrifice, hurt and enduring pain that can latch onto one's family. That's the crux of this one, tragedy turned resilience turned comfort and peace. This was the second novel I've read by her and I stand now even more firm that she possesses an innate knack for writing a family story. She softly rolls through pieces of the protagonist's young life (Kate) starting as a 7 year old. I

It's a strange thing that I came across this book. I found it wedged into the back of a shelf downstairs. It seems I read it at the perfect time. It came to me in the midst of serious, physical grief, the kind where your body is taken over by sadness and is simply a vessel for your shaking and sobbing and wailing. Oh the wailing. You will wail. And not in the Wayne's World sense. Its the kind of thing that you can't let anyone else listen to, because what the wailing is is the pain leaving your

I read this book several months ago and am still having a hard time reviewing this properly. To say I loved this book would be a huge understatement. It was such a powerful story and one that stays with you for a long time to come. This is the story of Kate Morrison and her tragic childhood, after being orphaned quite young. I found myself quite emotional throughout the book not because the subject matter was sad, but because Mary Lawson made me feel everything. The story was told in such a