Title: Short and sweet
Review: Crow Lake is a great book: quick, well-written, and thoughtful. The central character Kate is a Toronto zoology professor in her mid-twenties, who is reflecting on her childhood in Northern Ontario. Her parents died in a car accident when she was seven, and she was left with her two older brothers and her baby sister. The family's tragic story becomes entangled with a neighbor family's tragedies, but the book is, in the end, uplifting. The characters are beautifully drawn. Bo, the baby, is amazing; her mannerisms are dead on.Mary Lawson reflects on what the essence of life is: education and advancement, as Kate has always believed, or other things. she paints a suspenseful tale set in a desolate, but beautiful, landscape, and she illuminates on how nonsensical family relations can be and how difficult, but necessary, it is to re-evaluate our beliefs as we grow older. I recommend it.
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