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The Way the Crow Flies

A Novel (Today Show Book Club #18)

By Ann-Marie Macdonald

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| Hardcover | 9780060578954

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In her highly anticipated new novel, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to a postwar world. For Madeleine McCarthy, high-spirited and eight years old, her family's posting to a quiet air force base near the Canadian-American border is at first welcome, secure as she is in the love of her family anContinue

In her highly anticipated new novel, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to a postwar world. For Madeleine McCarthy, high-spirited and eight years old, her family's posting to a quiet air force base near the Canadian-American border is at first welcome, secure as she is in the love of her family and unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in his own web of secrets. The early sixties, a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race and overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of a child as Madeleine draws us into her world.

But the base is host to some intriguing inhabitants, including the unconventional Froehlich family, and the odd Mr. March, whose power over the children is a secret burden that they carry. Then tragedy strikes, and a very local murder intersects with global forces, binding the participants for life. As the tension in the McCarthys' household builds, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine learns about the ambiguity of human morality -- a lesson that will become clear only when the quest for the truth, and the killer, is renewed twenty years later.

The Way the Crow Flies is a novel that is as compelling as it is rich. With her unerring eye for the whimsical, the absurd, and the quintessentially human, Ann-Marie MacDonald stunningly evokes the pain, confusion, and humor of childhood in a perilous adult world. At once a loving portrayal and indictment of an era, The Way the Crow Flies is a work of great heart and soaring intelligence.

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  • "The Way the Crow Flies"

    (Reviewed by Jenny Dressel NOV 30, 2003) “It is possible, in 1962, for a drive to be the highlight of a family week. King of the road, behind the wheel on four steel-belted tires, the sky’s the limit. Let’s just drive we’ll find out where we’re going ... (read full critics)

    mostlyfiction published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

  • Who knows what?

    The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald 720pp, 4th Estate, £17.99 Ann-Marie MacDonald's confident first novel, Fall on Your Knees, was set mostly in Cape Breton, Canada, among three generations of a family whom she took care to sever from norma ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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