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Twenty-One Cardinals

Jocelyne Saucier

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FROM THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR OF AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN, A 2015 CBC CANADA READS SELECTION
An abandoned mine. A large family driven by honour. And a source of pain, buried deep in the ground.

We’re nothing like other families. We are self-made. We are an essence unto ourselves, unique and dissonant, the only members of our species. Livers of humdrum lives who flitted around us got their wings burned. We’re not mean, but we can bare our teeth. People didn’t hang around when a band of Cardinals made its presence known.

With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they’re congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown in northern Quebec was built around. But as the siblings tell the tales of their feral childhood, we discover that Angèle, the only Cardinal with a penchant for happiness, has gone missing – although everyone has pretended not to notice for years. Why the silence? What secrets does the mine hold?

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Release: March 01, 2006

ISBN 13: 9781552453070

Twenty-One Cardinals

Jocelyne Saucier

0/5 ( ratings)

FROM THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR OF AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN, A 2015 CBC CANADA READS SELECTION
An abandoned mine. A large family driven by honour. And a source of pain, buried deep in the ground.

We’re nothing like other families. We are self-made. We are an essence unto ourselves, unique and dissonant, the only members of our species. Livers of humdrum lives who flitted around us got their wings burned. We’re not mean, but we can bare our teeth. People didn’t hang around when a band of Cardinals made its presence known.

With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they’re congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown in northern Quebec was built around. But as the siblings tell the tales of their feral childhood, we discover that Angèle, the only Cardinal with a penchant for happiness, has gone missing – although everyone has pretended not to notice for years. Why the silence? What secrets does the mine hold?

Language: English

Pages: 176

Format: Paperback

Release: March 01, 2006

ISBN 13: 9781552453070

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