Our Homesick Songs
LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
From Emma Hooper, acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine “Pick of the Week,” comes a “haunting fable about the transformative power of hope” (Booklist, starred review) in a charming and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction.
Newfoundland, 1992. When all the fish vanish from the waters and the cod industry abruptly collapses, it's not long before the people begin to disappear from the town of Big Running as well. As residents are forced to leave the island in search of work, ten-year-old Finn Connor suddenly finds himself living in a ghost town. There's no school, no friends, and whole rows of houses stand abandoned. And then Finn's parents announce…
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June 4, 2019
Raised in Alberta, EMMA HOOPER is a musician and writer. Her debut novel, Etta and Otto and Russell and James, was an international bestseller and was published in twenty-four countries. Our Homesick Songs, her second novel, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2018. As a musician she performs as solo artist Waitress for the Bees, a project which earned her a Finnish Cultural Knighthood. She has also performed with Peter Gabriel, The Heavy, her string quartet Red Carousel, and numerous others. She now lives in the soft green of England’s South-West, but comes home to Canada to cross-country ski as much as she can.
We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky
Emma Hooper
Our Homesick Songs
Emma Hooper