R E K. (bigstone) - , reviewed on 9/13/2019 + 1452 more book reviews

A commercial artist in her twenties is summoned from the city to search for her father who lives on a remote lake in Quebec. Cool, attractive and attuned to an urban culture she returns to the Canadian wilderness of her childhood accompanied by three friends. She views Joe, her lover, from the side as the buffalo on the side of the U.S. nickel. The driver is David, blunt, glib, and, though married, sees women as prey. His wife, Ann, seeks to preserve her place as a woman and David's wife.

Accompanied by the three, she seeks to uncover her father's life prior to his disappearance. The novel is threaded with her reactions and emotions of her childhood. At the same time her urban friends view the little cabin and wilderness as heaven. This reader understood her reactions as I, too, grew up in an environment unlike the one I have lived in most of my life. As the story unfolds I realized that the author was sharing both memories and grief over the loss of another life at another time while searching for her father. It's a touching read that I find myself mulling over.

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