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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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Crow Lake is undeniably evocative of rural Canada, but at times the pacing is really slow and dry, not really the kind of story I often read.

I had just finished reading a bloody thriller and began my first book by Mary Lawson - a novel completely at the other end of the spectrum. Her style and voice was such that I felt that she was sitting next to me on the couch telling the story. The novel takes place in a small Northern Ontario farming community and revolves around the future lives of four children whose parents were killed in an accident. I thoroughly enjoyed this and will be reading more of Mary Lawson.

Ive meant to read more by Lawson ever since I reviewed her latest book, Road Ends, for Nudge in May 2015. All three of her novels draw on the same fictional setting: Struan, Ontario. Lawson grew up in a similar Canadian farming community before moving to England in the late 1960s. After an invitation arrives for her nephews birthday party, narrator Kate Morrison looks 20 years into the past to remember the climactic events of the year that she was seven. When she and her siblings were suddenly

This book is a gem for lovers of literary fiction. Mary Lawson captures the emotions and narratives of one family in Northern Ontario and puts them onto the page and into the hearts of readers. Told from the perspective of Kate, we are privy to the gifts, challenges, and tragedies that the Morrisons encounter, endure and surmount.As the novel opens, the four children - Luke, Matt, Kate and Bo - are depicted as living a comfortable life with their middle class parents in a remote area of Canada.

'. . . just one more dropped stitch in a family tapestry full of holes.'This is a story of strong familial bonds forged early in life, then eroding from deep-seated resentments, guilt, and an ingrained reluctance to speak the truth and set things straight. Smiling on the outside, hurting on the inside, even simple eye contact too uncomfortable to maintain. This author has a knack for writing characters so vivid that you would recognize any one of them if he or she came knocking at your front

This book has been sitting on my shelf, unread, for many years. I wish I'd left it there. While this is Mary Lawson's first book, my sympathy is limited. She offers no depth to her characters. You develop no bonds with anyone in the book. It has a poorly assembled storyline which is supposed to develop into an emotional epiphany for the flat protagonist "Kate"; however, by the end of the book, Kate has learned almost nothing about herself and, what she has "learned", was not picked up by her

This is very cleanly written, so it's a fast read. Just a good simple story about 4 children who lose their parents in a car accident and the struggles they go through to stay together as a family. The narrator looks back on how the choices each of them made altered their own lives as well as the lives of their siblings. I've been reading a lot of emotionally wrenching stuff lately, so this was a nice calm read for a change!I liked her second novel (The Other Side of the Bridge) a little better