I could smell the lake and trees, hear the birds, and feel the spongy moss.
The multi-sensory evocation of the setting, a mountain valley in British Columbia, is my favourite thing about this book. Luke, a boy her age, lived with his mother in a nearby cabin, but the nearest town was an hour's drive. It was an idyllic settler Canadian childhood, despite being marked by tragedy: being orphaned at seven.
Nature writing, in the form of a novel about the limits of human understanding about our place in this world.Īlternating chapters switch between Sandy Langley's account of her day spent following the tracks of a sasquatch in 2003, with longer flashbacks to the events of her lifetime living in a tiny cabin in the woods, where she was raised by her grandfather.
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