Giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed. MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, Tragic events that surround it provide a haunting focal point around which much of the capacious plot will revolve. Her sudden, mysterious return to Cape Breton and the When Kathleen goes to New York to study opera, more difficulties descend. Materia resurrects her Roman Catholic faith and her native language after the births of two more daughters. A daughter, Kathleen, is born with a musical gift her father dotes on her, yet sends her away to school, intent on improving her prospects. The Pipers get into trouble almost from the start when James, the aloof, ambitious son of Gaelic-speaking parents, elopes with Materia Mahmoud, the 13-year-old daughter of prominent. Materia is denied all family contact by herįather and is made to suppress both her heritage and her outgoing nature by her husband. he Canadian actress and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald writes of several generations of a Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, family in this resonant first novel. Get into trouble almost from the start when James, the aloof, ambitious son of Gaelic-speaking parents, elopes with Materia Mahmoud, the 13-year-old daughter of prominent Lebanese immigrants. He Canadian actress and playwright Ann-Marie MacDonald writes of several generations of a Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, family in this resonant first novel.
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