So, this is a book about family - the Morrison family to be precise. It's a book about love, loss, compromise and acceptance among siblings. It's about the hand that life deals you and how you decide to play that hand.
At the start of the novel, the Morrison family (Mom, Dad, Luke - 19, Matt - 16, Kate - 7 and "Bo" - a girl, 1 1/2) is living in a small, remote and rural town in Northern Ontario called Crow Lake. It's a place where most kids do not go beyond high school because they are expected to work on the farm. The Morrison's are one of the few non-farm families and Luke is headed toward college - the first Morrison to reach that goal. Of course, tragedy strikes the family and the kids are left to survive on their own without the security of their parents and Luke must give up the "dream". The story is told through Kate's eyes and through her we see only her experience of the tragedy and later learn how different that is from the rest of the families experience.
It's so interesting to see how events, experienced by one group can be interpreted so differently by each individual. Things that are a tragedy to one are simply a fact of life to another. Read the book - it's worth it.
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