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Chargement... Making it Homepar Alison DeLory
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Many of the characters in Making it Home by Alison DeLory are unsettled or displaced by forces beyond their control and must find a way to cope with momentous and even catastrophic change in their lives. It is 2014, and in Falkirk Cove, on Cape Breton Island, pig-headed Tinker Gordon does not welcome change. A retired fisherman, happily married to Flo, he is still mourning the loss of their son Russell, who in 2009 moved to Alberta for work and was killed in an industrial accident. When Russell’s son Charlie informs his grandfather that he’s also heading west in pursuit of a job, Tinker responds churlishly, as if Charlie’s action is a betrayal and not a response to real-life pressures. In Alberta, Charlie finds work, but not everything goes according to plan, and for a while he falls out of contact with his grandparents, who naturally worry. Meanwhile, Tinker and Flo are contacted by a woman from Toronto named Courtney, who informs them that she is the mother of Russell’s son Alex, who is five. Flo is delighted to learn that she is a grandmother again and that Charlie has a half-brother, but Tinker is suspicious and unwilling to accept Courtney's claims at face value. Meanwhile, in war-ravaged Syria, Sami, a doctor, Amira, his pregnant wife, and their young son and daughter are forced by the fighting to abandon their home in Aleppo and make their way to the border. After some tense moments, they pass into Turkey, where they end up in cramped, uncomfortable quarters in a refugee camp facing an uncertain future. Back in Cape Breton, Alex visits Flo and Tinker and wins their hearts, Charlie returns home, and a movement begins to raise money in order to bring a Syrian refugee family to Falkirk Cove, a project to which Flo enthusiastically devotes herself but which Tinker has difficulty accepting because of a prejudice against the unknown and an inherently stick-in-the-mud nature. DeLory tells a multi-faceted story in a straightforward manner, both chronologically and dramatically, in numerous brief chapters and using unadorned prose. The action, which centres around the universal struggle that all people face to make a better life for themselves, moves briskly along toward a satisfying denouement. The scenes set in Syria and Turkey are particularly effective and heart-rending. In her debut novel, DeLory writes convincingly and with confidence from multiple points of view and generates great empathy for her characters. As a work of fiction, Making it Home does not break new ground. It is occasionally predictable and is not entirely devoid of sentiment. But the story it tells is a very human one: compelling, timely and necessary. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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One family from Canada and another from Syria search for a sense of home in a novel written "with love and empathy towards the refugee experience" (Ahmad Danny Ramadan, award-winning author of The Clothesline Swing). Shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Tinker Gordon doesn't want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton Island community, his very world will stay exactly the way it has always been. But explosions large and small--a world away, in the Middle East, in the land of opportunity in western Canada, and in his own home in Falkirk Cove--threaten to turn everything Tinker has ever known upside down. Set variously in the heart of rural Cape Breton, on the war-torn streets of Aleppo and in a Turkish refugee camp, in the new wild west frontier of the Alberta oil patch, and in a tiny apartment in downtown Toronto, Tinker's family, friends, and neighbors new and old must find a way to make it home. In her adult fiction debut, Alison DeLory ponders a question as relevant in Atlantic Canada as anywhere in the world: where and how do we belong, and what does it take to make it home? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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