Far Cry
"A brilliant, hynotic work"—Madeleine Thien
"Beautiful and deeply moving"—Steven Price
"A bracing, electrifying dive into another world, other lives"—Marina Endicott
"This novel brought my heart to a new place"—Claire Cameron
"Rich and strange"—Shaena Lambert
In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most distinctive writers, evokes an era of unspoken desires in which pain and longing are braided together along treacherous lines.
It's 1922 at Far Cry Cannery, a quarter-mile of boardwalk and wooden buildings strung along the rocks of Rivers Inlet on the northwest coast of British Columbia. The time has come for Anders Viken, storekeeper and honorary uncle to the recently orphaned Kit, to give an account of his secret self—from his first home in…