Algoma

A Year After Watching His Brother Go Through The Ice, Twelve-year Old Ferd Refuses To Believe Leo Is Gone. Convinced His Brother Is Still Alive, Ferd Enters Into A Campaign Of Letters To Persuade His Brother To Come Home, ?mailing? Notes In Any Pool Of Water He Can Find. Soon, Sopping Notes Begin To Appear Around The House {u2013} Folded Squares Of Paper In The Rain Reservoir, Kitchen Sink, And Washing Machine. Ferd's Mother, Algoma, Finds The Letters And Keeps Them To Herself In An Attempt To Hide Them From Her Increasingly Distant Husband. Gaetan, A Bartender Who Obsessively Records The Weather, Rejects His Family's Increasingly Erratic Behaviour And Disappears One Night Leaving Behind His Weather Journal, A Newly Pregnant Wife, And A Son Consumed With Talking To The Dead. --from Amazon.ca. By Dani Couture. Issued Also In Electronic Format. One of the Toronto Star's top books of the year A year after watching Leo go through thin ice, twelve-year- old Ferd is obsessed with the idea that he can persuade his dead brother to come home through a campaign of letters. Plaintive notes appear around the house-folded squares of paper in the rain reservoir, kitchen sink, and washing machine. Ferd's mother, Algoma, is also unravelling; attempting to hide her son's letters, reconnect with her increasingly distant husband, and rebuild her life. “Algoma is a strong debut novel with a haunting landscape, convincing characters and a vivid sense of the haphazard nature of our lives.”—National Post “A very good first novel from a refreshing new voice.”—Quill & Quire One of the Toronto Star 's top books of the year A year after watching Leo go through thin ice, twelve-year- old Ferd is obsessed with the idea that he can persuade his dead brother to come home through a campaign of letters. Plaintive notes appear around the house-folded squares of paper in the rain reservoir, kitchen sink, and washing machine. Ferds mother, Algoma, is also unravelling; attempting to hide her sons letters, reconnect with her increasingly distant husband, and rebuild her life. Algoma is a strong debut novel with a haunting landscape, convincing characters and a vivid sense of the haphazard nature of our lives. National Post A very good first novel from a refreshing new voice. Quill & Quire