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chalicotherex's review
3.0
A memory of a different time in Cape Breton, and another testament to the weird psychological role that the Causeway seems to play. Even though it's a memoir it seems like an Alistair Macleod short story. Also interesting to see where he seems to have got some of the ideas for his later novels.
canadianbookworm's review
4.0
This memoir of boyhood years in Cape Breton by the cohost of CBC's fifth estate is a strong story of a boy's relationship with his father and his community. Linden was a boy always interested in the world, both the world of the adults in his own community and the world beyond Cape Breton. He became friendly with a Hungarian man, Old John, who ran the temporary camp for the causeway workers, and with a young Korean engineer, Ted. He listened to the conversations around him, and made his own sense of them. He gives his impressions of his father and the life his father had to live to support the family. His book includes references to the idea of home and the roots that we all have. As someone who grew up moving often and without a real sense of a physical place as home, I can relate to his comments on this.
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