crow lake
by mary lawson

Mary Lawson’s debut novel is a shimmering tale of love, death and redemption set in a rural northern community where time has stood still. Tragic, funny and unforgettable, this deceptively simple masterpiece about the perils of hero worship leapt to the top of the bestseller lists only days after being released in Canada and earned glowing reviews in The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, to name a few. Luke, Matt, Kate and Bo Morrison are born in an Ontario farming community of only a few families, so isolated that “the road led only south.” There is little work, marriage choices are few, and the winter cold seeps into the bones of all who dare to live there. In the Morrisons’ hard-working, Presbyterian house, the Eleventh Commandment is “Thou Shalt Not Emote.” But as descendants of a great-grandmother who “fixed a book rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning,” the Morrison children have some hope of getting off the land through the blessings of education. Luke, the eldest, is accepted at teachers college -- despite having struggle mightily through school -- but before he can enroll, the Morrison parents are killed in a collision with a logging truck. He gives up his place to stay home and raise his younger sisters -- seven-year-old Kate, and Bo, still a baby.

good book :)

i like this book

I would rather put a bullet in my head than read anouther word in this piece of shit book

This book sucks my balls

could you please print this off for me!

this book is the worst thing ever everyone is like omg its so good the main character is so annoying and there is one page about a friggen teapot way 2 descriptive and mary lawson friggen talks about snow and canadian wildlife so much like hellllo im from here i know i get it errrrrrr

It was pretty good i wasnt crazy about the ending

stupidest book in the world!!

This book is one of the best I've ever read. =)

this novel is good but there are some novels much better thaan it...

this novel is good but there are some novels much better thaan it...

I loved the book for its ability to captivate me and for its intertwining plot and messages. My favourite book all year.

Jill put it beautifully..what else can say?

well the general concensus on crow lake was...that while it wasn't the most amazing book any of us had ever read, it had an important message and the writer was able to capture some important details about the human experience in death, grieving, the wonder of childhood, the experience of guilt, and most importantly the way in which we often forget that we are viewing the world and the people around us through our own perceptions and misperceptions. it had some great symbolism in the ponds, the life in the ponds, and the surface tension that affected all of them...it was an interesting metaphor for community and relationships and the way we are all intertwined...as it says in the book "parallel lines never meet" and since allthe lives in the book intersected in so many ways, it is clear that the message there is that we are NOT parallel lines...we all have a different end point and destination, a differnet way to go, a different path to follow, and our own journey is a part of that map of lives. The book was certainly made a lot richer and meaningful after our meeting and discussion. I definitely have a greater appreciation for the book than I did when I was reading it!

so far this book is alright...any book has a hard job following middlesex