More than 200 years ago, a group of Irish people had to leave their homeland for various reasons, they boarded a boat and went through a lot of hardships to come to a place called Cape Breton in Canada, which has become their new "homeland".
In order to survive, they go down to the well to dig mines, go out to sea to fish, and exchange the hardest and most dangerous labor for the reward of only enough to survive, such a life is willing for some people, and some people can't wait to escape. "The Lost Blood Gift in the Sea Breeze" is the story of their descendants.
The book consists of seven independent short stories, each set in Cape Breton, in a corner not even known to many Canadians:
There are mothers who have to "cruelly" sell their father's beloved old horses in order to live; there are teenagers who run away from home in order to get rid of the fate of the family's generations of coal digging; there are old grandmothers who insist on living in deserted villages; there is a father who has been trapped on the island to fish all his life and finally died in a shipwreck...
After reading this book, I can't help but think of my hometown, my ancestors, and the migrations and efforts they made to survive.
I used to think that my grandparents above my grandfather were far away from me, but after reading this book, I suddenly realized that every small decision they made profoundly affected my life and destiny at this moment.
Although they are all exotic stories, they will not feel at all alienated, because the author uses superb writing skills to give each novel a delicate emotion.
The author of the book with deep emotions carved out of the article, each with its own texture of being soaked by the sea and then blown dry by the sea breeze, let people feel depressed to read, but also feel understood.
Many people have been fleeing their hometown all their lives, but in fact they have not left ❤️ for a day
#阅读的温度 #
A lost blood-colored gift in the sea breeze
