Succession Author:Art Norris Succession is a story cycle about a rural community in transition. It follows Al, a musician burned out from too many nights playing the same classic rock songs, as he returns from Vancouver to the farm where he grew up, in the Bearspaw district in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. — Al's story is intertwined with those of his family,... more » friends, and neighbours, as they struggle to come to terms with the choices they make, and those that are forced upon them by the suburbanization of their agricultural community. Succession explores themes of place and belonging, the place of art in working life, and urban and rural identity. Most of all it's a meditation on what is lost when the beautiful places of the earth are discovered and changed by outsiders – and what remains.
Begging comparison with the fiction of Wendell Berry, Succession explores universal themes by examining the intensely local.« less