Doubleday

9780385545426

STARRED REVIEW

The Innocents

THE INNOCENTS reminds us of all the reasons we read—to understand, to imagine, to find compassion and to witness the making of art.

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Review of ‘The Innocents’

Award-winning poet and novelist Michael Crummey’s work draws imaginatively from the history and landscape of his native Newfoundland. The Innocents, his fifth novel, is the riveting story of an orphaned brother and sister whose relationship is tested by hardship and isolation in 19th-century coastal Labrador.

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