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to this place as he had always done, this birthplace of the seasons, of smelt and of the white caribou, and of deep knowledge that a person did not find in manmade things. Only in wind over the land did Treadway find the freedom his son would seek elsewhere. Treadway was a man of Labrador, but his son had left home as daughters and sons do, to seek freedom their fathers do not need to inhabit, for it inhabits the fathers.

Acknowledgements

I THANK MY BELOVED FAMILY and friends, especially my husband, Jean Dandenault. Thank you to my writing group: enginistas Danielle Devereaux, Lina Gordaneer, Julie Paul, and Alice Zorn. Thank you to Agnes Hutchings. Thank you to my wonderful agent, Shaun Bradley. Thank you to Sarah MacLachlan and the staff of House of Anansi Press. Thank you to Lynn Verge and the kind staff of Montreal’s Atwater Library. Special thanks to my editor, Lynn Henry, for her profound expertise and dedication. And thank you, dear reader.

About the Author

KATHLEEN WINTER has written dramatic and documentary scripts for Sesame Street and CBC Television. Her first collection of stories, boYs, was the winner of both the Winterset Award and the Metcalf–Rooke Award. A longtime resident of St. John’s, Newfoundland, she now lives in Montreal.

About the Publisher

House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 with a mandate to publish Canadian-authored books, a mandate that continues to this day even as the list has branched out to include internationally acclaimed thinkers and writers. The press immediately gained attention for significant titles by notable writers such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, George Grant, and Northrop Frye. Since then, Anansi’s commitment to finding, publishing and promoting challenging, excellent writing has won it tremendous acclaim and solid staying power. Today Anansi is Canada’s pre-eminent independent press, and home to nationally and internationally bestselling and acclaimed authors such as Gil Adamson, Margaret Atwood, Ken Babstock, Peter Behrens, Rawi Hage, Misha Glenny, Jim Harrison, A. L. Kennedy, Pasha Malla, Lisa Moore, A. F. Moritz, Eric Siblin, Karen Solie, and Ronald Wright. Anansi is also proud to publish the award-winning nonfiction series The CBC Massey Lectures. In 2007, 2009, and 2010 Anansi was honoured by the Canadian Booksellers Association as “Publisher of the Year.”

Table of Contents

Cover

Openers

Epigraph

Prologue

Part One

1 - New World

2 - Beaver River

3 - Thomasina Outside the Church

4 - Phalometer

5 - Christening

Part Two

6 - Meat Cakes

7 - Elizaveta Kirilovna

8 - Wally Michelin

9 - Lettuce Sandwich

10 - Alto

11 - Old Love

Part Three

12 - General Electric

13 - Spin the Bottle

14 - Dr. Lioukras

15 - Boreal Owl

16 - Falling Away

17 - A Real Little Man

18 - Prom Night

19 - Hope Chest

20 - Willow Ptarmigan

Part Four

21 - Caines Grocery

22 - Fabric and Notions

23 - Franchise King

24 - Sugar Plum

25 - Economics

26 - The Battery

27 - Lotus

28 - The Costume Bank

29 - Seed Potatoes

30 - The Makeup Artist

31 - My Dear Companion

32 - Treadway's Gold

33 - Red Hawk

34 - The Fire of Your Grace

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

About the Author

About the Publisher