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Our Homesick Songs

Auteur(s): Emma Hooper
Narrateur(s): Nicole Power
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 LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

From Emma Hooper, acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine “Pick of the Week,” comes a “haunting fable about the transformative power of hope” (Booklist, starred review) in a charming and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction.

Newfoundland, 1992. When all the fish vanish from the waters and the cod industry abruptly collapses, it's not long before the people begin to disappear from the town of Big Running as well. As residents are forced to leave the island in search of work, ten-year-old Finn Connor suddenly finds himself living in a ghost town. There's no school, no friends, and whole rows of houses stand abandoned. And then Finn's parents announce that they too must separate if their family is to survive.
But Finn still has his sister, Cora, with whom he counts the dwindling boats on the coast at night, and Mrs. Callaghan, who teaches him the strange and ancient melodies of their native Ireland. That is until his sister disappears, and Finn must find a way of calling home the family and the life he has lost. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Fiction littéraire Récits initiatiques
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Poetically constructed. As an Albertan who saw the people come from out east to work in the oil patch, this rang true for me. I would love to visit one of Cora's decorated houses, and have an accordion lesson with Mrs Callahan. The repeated phrases in the writing reminiscent of repeated melodies in music. Wonderful.

Beautiful story

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I listen as I drive. This one made me take the the longest home. I highly recommend it as an honest tale of in Outport Newfoundland.

A real page turner!

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An ok story. Could have been better if provided with more detail/character development etc. The singing was uber annoying. Otherwise the narrator was ok.

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