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Alistair MacLeod musters all the talent and elegance that have gained him a global following to provide us No Great Mischief, the tale of a very devoted family and the custom that pushes it.Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds nevertheless encounter apparently unmitigated challenges and cruelties of living. Alexander, orphaned as a young child with a terrible catastrophe, has nonetheless received some success on the planet. Actually his older brother, Calum, an almost abandoned alcoholic living on Toronto's skid-row, hasbeen damaged by another misfortune. But, like all his clansman, Alexander is suffered with a genealogy that appears to tell you his veins.