A masterwork from one of the country's most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that is both compulsively readable and heartstopping in the vital truth it reveals. Unfolding them in a novel that grapples with sexual abuse, male violence and madness, Wayne Johnston reveals haunting family secrets he's kept for more than 30 years. Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St.
