Through Black Spruce

By Joseph Boyden,

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Fifteen years after the death of their patriarch Xavier, the Bird Clan finds itself struggling to survive on the hardscrabble reservation they call home. On Christmas Day, the youngest of the clan, a beautiful young woman called Suzanne leaves by snowmobile with her boyfriend Gus Netmaker, against both families' wishes,…

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Having previously read "Three Day Road", also by Boyden, I was confident that I would love the sequel, and I wasn't disappointed.

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