Cape Breton Road

I was totally enraptured by this novel about a 19-year-old boy ousted from the U.S. for stealing cars, and sent back to the place of his birth, Cape Breton Island, Canada. I was enraptured, that is, until the end when everything fell apart. It was an interesting tale about Innis, who just wanted to raise a small crop of weed in the woods and then make enough money from the sale of that weed to enable him to escape the confines of the island. Of course, along the way, he meets some wonderful characters, who teach him the value of the old-time ways. The end just didn't feel right to me, with Innis taking a giant leap backwards after all the believable little steps he had taken forward.

I started reading this and yet again, discovered I had already read it. I didn't much enjoy the first time so a second attempt was clearly a waste of time...

When I saw this book in the book store I joked to my husband that it should be subtitled "Highway to Hell" . The book really is not good - neither is life in CB.