Cape Breton Road Author:D. R. MacDonald This is the story of Innis Corbett, a young man born into a Highlander community in Cape Breton, whose inhabitants are held by ties of memory and blood. As a small child Innis leaves with his mother and father to live in Boston. After his father is killed in a car accident, Innis is raised by his mother , a woman with a weakness for men and dr... more »ink. When Innis gets into trouble over a series of car thefts (fancy cars are his soft spot, along with smoking pot), he is deported to Canada, a punishment worse to Innis than going to prison.
It's the late 1970's. Innis has been living with his bachelor uncle in rural Nova Scotia, a place that has shaped his family and continues to absorb and challenge him. He takes refuge in the wild, dense woods, where he devises a plan to grow marijuana. This venture assuages his loneliness and gives him something to care for, a secret of his own. Then Claire, an attractive former flight attendant nearing 40, enters the household. So begins an entanglement that leads to suspicion, jealousy, and ultimately to violence.
'Cape Breton Road' is an exceptional novel by a writer with an unerring eye for landscape and the human condition.« less