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Crow Lake is that rare find, an initial book so silently guaranteed, so psychologically pitch-perfect, you realize in the beginning page that this is actually the actual thing—a fictional encounter in which to get rid of oneself, by a writer of enormous talent.Here is just a beautiful, slow-burning tale occur the outlying “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is just a Greek tragedy where in actuality the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur—offstage. Center-Stage would be the Morrisons, whose misfortune appears more fast if less challenging, but is, the truth is, divisive and subtle. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older sibling Matt’s protegee, her enchantment for lake life given by his passionate curiosity about the natural world.