The Sentimentalists - Johanna Skibsrud
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Narrator: Celeste Ciulla
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5h32m, Winner of 2010 Giller Prize, Johanna Skibsruds debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota and an unfinished boat in Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsruds narrator maps her fathers past., Napoleon Haskell lives with Henry in the town of Casablanca, Ontario, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains of the former town. Henry is the father of Napoleons friend Owen, who died fighting in Vietnam. When her life comes apart, Napoleons daughter retreats to Casablanca and is soon immersed in the complicated family stories that lurk below the surface of everyday life. With its quiet mullings and lines from Bogart, The Sentimentalists captures a daughters wrestling with a heady family mythology., The real beginning of this story, says Skibsrud, was a summer that I spent working on Flagstaff lake, a lake that covers four now submerged townships
