Alistair MacLeod
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"In 1779 Calum MacDonald set sail in exile from the Highlands of Scotland with his wife and twelve children, along with the dog who would not be left behind and swam after the departing boat. After a catastrophic crossing he landed in the New World at Cape Breton, by which time he had become a widower and a grandfather." "Two hundred years later, another MacDonald tells the story of coming of age in that same bleak Cape Breton landscape. Alexander...