Crow Lake

ISBN: 9780770430108 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 9780676974805 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 0770430104 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 0676974805 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: print 291 p. : 21 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2002.
Badges: Top Holds Over Last 5 Years : 2 / 5.0

Lawson, Mary 1946- (Author).

Summary: "In a family bound together by loss, the closest relationship is that between Kate and her older brother Matt, who love to wander off to the ponds together and lie on the bank, noses to the water... Matt, a true scholar, is expected to fulfill the family dream by becoming the first Morrison to earn a university degree. But a dramatic event changes his course, and he ends up a farmer; so it is Kate who eventually earns the doctorate and university teaching position. She is never able to reconcile her success with what she considers the tragedy of Matt’s failure, and she feels a terrible guilt over the sacrifices made for her. Now a successful biologist in her twenties, she nervously returns home with her partner, a microbiologist from an academic family, to celebrate Matt’s son’s birthday. Amid the clash of cultures, Kate takes us in and out of her troubled childhood memories. Accustomed to dissecting organisms under a microscope, she must now analyze her own emotional life."--Goodreads.