Saltwater Joys

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Dianna Brown, May 4, 2018 - Fiction - 315 pages

 Saltwater Joys is set in Ireland’s Eye, a ghost town located on the edge of Newfoundland and Labrador—one of hundreds of fishing outports forced to resettle during the province’s confederation with Canada. The grave consequences of resettlement for the people and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador are illuminated in this intimate tale of one family’s experience across two generations.


In the fall of 1965, John Lee, a young fisherman, makes a tragic decision that changes the course of his life, pushing him to a self-imposed exile and to the brink of insanity. Twenty years later, John must face the demons of his past when a young woman ventures to the rocky shores of Newfoundland in search of her roots.

This work of literary fiction explores themes of love, suffering, survival and redemption through two parallel love stories—love for a woman and love for a province. The reader will come to know Newfoundland and Labrador and all it has to offer in its vast natural beauty, poetic language, close-knit communities, bountiful hospitality, ghost stories, folklore and colourful culture. Saltwater Joys is a mournful and haunting story that will surely captivate and call you home.
 

Selected pages

Contents

Chapter 1
5
Chapter 2
19
Chapter 3
34
Chapter 4
50
Chapter 5
59
Chapter 6
70
Chapter 7
79
Chapter 8
91
Chapter 16
169
Chapter 17
178
Chapter 18
198
Chapter 19
212
Chapter 20
223
Chapter 21
236
Chapter 22
251
Chapter 23
265

Chapter 9
100
Chapter 10
109
Chapter 11
116
Chapter 12
131
Chapter 13
142
Chapter 14
149
Chapter 15
156
Chapter 24
276
Chapter 25
293
Chapter 26
309
Dont miss out
317
About the Author
318
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2018)

Dianna has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Calgary, and is currently a student at St. Mary’s University in Calgary to obtain her Bachelor of Education degree. She has also completed an Intensive Style and Grammar clinic offered through the University of Calgary, and has taken Advanced Fiction Writing courses through the University of Athabasca.

She was born in Gander, and raised in Kelligrews, Newfoundland. She currently resides in Calgary with her husband and two sons. She loves to play the piano, to write poetry, and to read and write fiction. She’s is working on the sequel to Saltwater Joys, and is working on another literary fiction novel situated in the farthest remote community of the Canadian Artic. She is also working on a non-fiction book with her sister, Crystal, to help families who have a child with cancer, in hopes of sharing their family’s experience to inspire and help others.

Bibliographic information

TitleSaltwater Joys
AuthorDianna Brown
PublisherDianna Brown, 2018
ISBN1718735634, 9781718735637
Length315 pages
Subjects › 

Fiction / Literary
  
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