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Washika: A Novel
Author(s): Robert A. Poirier (Author)
- Publisher: Baraka Books
- Publication Date: 15 Nov. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 1926824539
- ISBN-13: 9781926824536
Book Description
It’s the 1960s and 21 testosterone-drenched high school graduates are bussed into Washika Bay, a company logging camp where they will work for the summer. Idealistic, confident, and sometimes troubled, the young men meet their matches in tough older bush workers and cope with a devastating forest fire, sand flies, and leeches. Henri Morin is particularly sensitive and, though a hard worker, appears to harbor dark thoughts, and another young man’s moving love story is carefully told. In no other place could the transition from adolescence to adulthood be the same. Through its characters and their experiences, this book has revived an era and inspired new life into a wild and beautiful place.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The reader can smell and taste the meals, feel the weather, and accompany the crew on the rough landscape. . . . A touch of poetry to the writing . . . Washika becomes a coming-of-age story, and a poignant one at that. . . . The cover art, a painting of a tug on the river, is lovely and befits the story and era, as does each photograph at the beginning of a new section.” –www.ForewordReviews.com
About the Author
Robert A. Poirier is a math and science high school teacher with 19 years of experience and the cofounder of the Maniwaki Ambulance Cooperative. He lives in Maniwaki, Quebec.
