![]() Told in Hooper's signature ethereal style, each page of this incandescent novel glows with mythical, musical wonder. Our Homesick Songs was on the longlist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. In Our Homesick Songs, Emma Hooper paints a gorgeous portrait of the Connor family, brilliantly weaving together four different stories and two generations of Connors, full of wonder and hope. That is until his sister disappears, and Finn must find a way of calling home the family and the life he has lost. Callaghan, who teaches him the strange and ancient melodies of their native Ireland. And then Finn's parents announce that they too must separate if their family is to survive.īut Finn still has his sister, Cora, with whom he counts the dwindling boats on the coast at night, and Mrs. There's no school, no friends and whole rows of houses stand abandoned. ![]() ![]() As residents are forced to leave the island in search of work, 10-year-old Finn Connor suddenly finds himself living in a ghost town. When all the fish vanish from the waters and the cod industry abruptly collapses, it's not long before the people begin to disappear from the town of Big Running as well. ![]()
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