title: Cape Breton Road: A Novel
author:  D. R. MacDonald 
description: At the beginning of <I>Cape Breton Road</I>, D.R. MacDonald's 19-year-old protagonist finds himself deported from Boston, where he's stolen one too many cars. Innis is sent back to his native Nova Scotia--or more precisely, to remote Cape Breton Island. There he is exiled to the old family farmhouse to live with his reluctant uncle, whose penchant for booze and girls leaves little time for supervising an errant nephew. Not surprisingly, Innis at once looks for an escape. From time to time he hikes up into the hills, where he can plant his attic-nurtured marijuana seedlings far from prying eyes. Up in the woods he sets to work "with a pleasure no other task had matched, spacing the pots zigzag so they would look natural, like weeds, if someone did happen by, seduced, like him, by the light of a clearing."
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  # Cover
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  God’s Country
  
  
  17 Cape Breton Stories
  
  
  Classic and Rare
  
  
  From the heart of a storytelling island . . . .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Kaya, Octavia and Dziko  
  Jake and Nate
  
  
  Finn and Lucas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  God’s Country
  
  
  17 Cape Breton Stories Classic and Rare
  
  
  Selected with an Introduction by Ronald Caplan
  
  
  Breton Books
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  God’s Country © 2013 Breton Books
  
  
  The copyright for each story belongs to the author. Our thanks to the authors
  for permission to include their story. “The Boat” from Island: The Collected
  Stories by Alistair MacLeod. Copyright © 2000 Alistair MacLeod. Reprinted by
  permission of McClelland & Stewart.
  
  
  In presenting the stories in God’s Country, the editor has decided to respect
  each author’s choice of Canadian and American spellings.
  
  
  Cover Photograph: Warren Gordon’s “Cap Rouge Along the Cabot Trail.” Captured
  during an early evening in August 2011, 