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The Canoe by Michelle Baker
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The Canoe (edition 2014)

by Michelle Baker (Author)

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Set in 1912, The Canoe follows the story of Bernie Kingston, the teenage son of an undertaker who helps his father build coffins, and Katherine Chambers, a middle-aged English woman who has left home for the first time in hopes of escaping the grief over her dead husband and son. Follow their journeys in this dual coming-of-age story that takes you through the chaos and quietude of their lives told as an exquisite poetic portrait of love and loss more than a century ago.… (more)
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Title:The Canoe
Authors:Michelle Baker (Author)
Info:Pine Needle Roadhouse Press (2014), 118 pages
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Baker writes beautiful prose about love and loss that everyone can relate to. ( )
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They had a name and they had names.
The river had a name too
as did the water in it
and the boat upon it
and the ocean that caught them....
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Set in 1912, The Canoe follows the story of Bernie Kingston, the teenage son of an undertaker who helps his father build coffins, and Katherine Chambers, a middle-aged English woman who has left home for the first time in hopes of escaping the grief over her dead husband and son. Follow their journeys in this dual coming-of-age story that takes you through the chaos and quietude of their lives told as an exquisite poetic portrait of love and loss more than a century ago.

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