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The Fortunate Brother
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The acclaimed author of Sylvanus Now continues her rural Newfoundland family saga with this award-winning, international bestselling novel.
Life for Kyle Now and his siblings was never easy in the Canadian fishery village where they grew up. But with adulthood come both freedom and regret. Kyle certainly regrets urging his brother Chris to go west—only for him to find work, and then his death, on an oil rig. Now death appears to be haunting the family: Kyle’s mother Addie receives a troubling diagnosis, and his father Sylvanus has yet to give up drinking. With his sister Sylvie adrift somewhere in the world, Kyle would seem to be the fortunate one… until the body of a local thug washes up on the family wharf.
The third novel in Donna Morrissey’s Now family saga, The Fortunate Brother is a dark, atmospheric novel about the aftermath of a murder in a claustrophobic rural community in Newfoundland. Compassionate and wise, beautiful and brutal, it is the story of a family and a community in turmoil that confirms Donna Morrissey's place as one of Canada's foremost storytellers.
Winner of the 2017 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, Best Novel
Winner of the 2017 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
Life for Kyle Now and his siblings was never easy in the Canadian fishery village where they grew up. But with adulthood come both freedom and regret. Kyle certainly regrets urging his brother Chris to go west—only for him to find work, and then his death, on an oil rig. Now death appears to be haunting the family: Kyle’s mother Addie receives a troubling diagnosis, and his father Sylvanus has yet to give up drinking. With his sister Sylvie adrift somewhere in the world, Kyle would seem to be the fortunate one… until the body of a local thug washes up on the family wharf.
The third novel in Donna Morrissey’s Now family saga, The Fortunate Brother is a dark, atmospheric novel about the aftermath of a murder in a claustrophobic rural community in Newfoundland. Compassionate and wise, beautiful and brutal, it is the story of a family and a community in turmoil that confirms Donna Morrissey's place as one of Canada's foremost storytellers.
Winner of the 2017 Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing, Best Novel
Winner of the 2017 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
Author
Donna Morrissey
Donna Morrissey lives in Bucks County, PA and is a mother of three daughters. She was a pre-school teacher and a Teacher's Assistant for children with autism and behavioral challenges. She currently works at a children's museum and dedicates her life to raising self-awareness.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fortunate Brother as a murder mystery for me was hard to get into, it could be that this book is the third in a series and I wasn't aware of that when I started the book. Donna Morrissey's writing is superb. I cared about the plot, I wanted to find the murderer, it was dark, as a murder story should be, and I was up half the night trying not to dream about the book. Although it isn't a stand-alone book it still was definitely worth the read. I would recommend reading Sylvanus Now and What They Wanted. then read The Fortunate Brother it is a must read!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I've read a few of Donna Morrissey's books although not as many as I would have liked. One of the ones I have read is Sylvanus Now. The eponymous character of that book appears in this book. I felt like I was catching up with the news of a friend that I knew when they were young but lost touch with for many years. Life has not been kind to the Now family. They were driven out of their outport home by the decline of the cod fishery. Sylvanus cut his house in half and floated it to a village down the coast near Cornerbrook. Then Sylvanus had a heart attack and could not continue working. His daughter Sylvie came home from Alberta and when she went back the older son, Chris, went with her. That left just Kyle living at home. Then came the devastating news that Chris had been killed on an oil rig. Everyone in the family grieved but each in their own way. Sylvanus took to the bottle, Sylvie went to Africa with her boyfriend, Kyle ran away, literally, from acknowledging the grief and only Addie, the mother, seemed to deal with the sorrow that she felt. Although religion is never specifically mentioned it seems like Addie has a deep religious conviction and she is sustained by that. At one point Addie tells Kyle that everybody has something to grieve. "It's how you carries it--that's what you take into the other world with you. That's the only thing we takes." However, even her faith may be challenged when she is told she has breast cancer and must have a mastectomy immediately. As unlikely as it may seem the murder of a local man, Clar Gilliard, brings peace to the family even though initially Sylvanus and Kyle suspect one another and then suspect Addie.Despite the serious matters in this book there are also touches of humour. When Addie is in the hospital she doesn't want Sylvie told about her cancer but, of course, that's the first thing Kyle spits out when Sylvie phones. Sylvanus reams him out about spilling the beans all the way to the hospital in Cornerbrook and cautions Kyle to say nothing to his mother. In Addie's room Sylvanus takes the chair next to her bed and the first words out of his mouth is that Sylvie is coming home. I gave a bark of laughter at that. Another great book from this great writer.
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