Saltwater Joys
By Dianna Brown
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Saltwater Joys is set in Ireland’s Eye, a ghost town located on the edge of Newfoundland and Labrador—one of hundreds of fishing outports forced to resettle during the province’s confederation with Canada. The grave consequences of resettlement for the people and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador are illuminated in this intimate tale of one family’s experience across two generations.
In the fall of 1965, John Lee, a young fisherman, makes a tragic decision that changes the course of his life, pushing him to a self-imposed exile and to the brink of insanity. Twenty years later, John must face the secrets of his past when a young woman ventures to the rocky shores of Newfoundland in search of her roots.
This work of literary fiction explores themes of love, suffering, survival and redemption through two parallel love stories—love for a woman and love for a province. The reader will come to know Newfoundland and Labrador and all it has to offer in its vast natural beauty, poetic language, close-knit communities, bountiful hospitality, ghost stories, folklore and colourful culture. Saltwater Joys is a mournful and haunting story that will surely captivate and call you home.
Dianna Brown
Dianna has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Calgary and is currently a student at St. Mary’s University, Calgary, to complete her Bachelor of Education degree in the spring of 2019. She has taken Advanced Fiction Writing courses through the University of Athabasca. She was born in Gander and raised in Kelligrews, Newfoundland. She currently resides in Calgary with her husband and two sons. She is currently writing the sequel to Saltwater Joys, as well as another literary fiction novel situated in the farthest remote community of the Canadian Artic. She is also working on a non-fiction book with her sister, Crystal, to help families who have a child with cancer, in hopes of sharing their family’s experience to inspire and help others.
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