Road Ends (novel)
Road Ends is the third novel by Canadian novelist Mary Lawson and set in Canadian Shield in Northern Ontario as are both her previous novels.
 First edition (Canada) | |
| Author | Mary Lawson |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Knopf Canada Chatto and Windus (UK) |
Publication date | 2013 |
| Media type | |
| ISBN | 0-345-80808-8 |
Plot summary
Set in the late 1960s, twenty-one-year-old Megan Cartwright has never left her family but then moves to London and discovers her full potential. But letters begin to arrive from her parents struggle to keep the family together.
Setting
The story takes place in Struan, a small fictional town set in Northern Ontario.
Reception
- Mary Lawson’s story of a dysfunctional family in a northern Ontario logging town is told in scenes that are as palpably tender and surprising as they are quietly disturbing. Road Ends, her formidable third novel, uses the frozen landscape as a metaphor for the numb, spiritless lives her people shuffle through uneventfully, stuck in their circumstances. But there is a deeper drama that propels the book forward, and that sets up a vivid, evocative tale of rural and domestic angst laced with calamity.[1]
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