Coming-of-Age novel set on Mudeford Spit, DORSET
River Thieves
Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): 18th century
In his first novel, poet and short-story writer Michael Crummey reaches far into Newfoundland’s past to tell one of the colony’s most tragic stories: the extermination of the Beothuk people. Through the lives and reminiscences of some of the colony’s most prominent European residents—David Buchan, a naval explorer and idealist who attempts to bring the isolated Beothuks into productive contact with the British Empire; John Peyton Jr., the obedient son of a relentlessly patriarchal local trader; Cassie Jure, John Peyton Sr.’s literate, aloof housekeeper; and Joseph Reilly, a transported Irish thief and a genuinely decent trapper—Crummey recounts a halfhearted attempt, foiled by the colony’s petty tensions, to save the Beothuks.
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