"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed.
Then about the murders, which happened later."
Then fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his
sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this
private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a
threshold that can never be uncrossed.
His parents' arrest and imprisonment mean a threatening and
uncertain future for Dell and his twin sister, Berner.
Willful and burning with resentment, Berner flees their home
in Montana, abandoning her brother and her life. But Dell is
not completely alone. A family friend intervenes, spiriting
him across the Canadian border, in hopes of delivering him
to a better life. There, afloat on the prairie of
Saskatchewan, Dell is taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an
enigmatic and charismatic American whose cool reserve masks
a dark and violent nature.
Undone by the calamity of his parents' robbery and arrest,
Dell struggles under the vast prairie sky to remake himself
and define the adults he thought he knew. But his search for
grace and peace only moves him nearer to a harrowing and
murderous collision with Remlinger, an elemental force of
darkness.
A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision from
one of our greatest writers, Canada is a profound novel of
boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the
mysterious and consoling bonds of family. Told in spare,
elegant prose, both resonant and luminous, it is destined to
become a classic.
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