About the Book

Residents of a small Quebec village, half French and half English, are feuding as the Referendum on separation from Canada approaches. Meanwhile, an Arab entrepreneur is busy buying property (restaurant, hardware store, marina, large houses), and an Abenaki Indian with a law degree from McGill has arrived in town, allegedly for the spring fishing.

About the Author

Ronald Sutherland was born and raised in the largely French-speaking east end of Montreal. He taught at l'Université de Sherbrooke and founded the discipline of Comparative Canadian Literature. He has published numerous scholarly articles and books, humourous vignettes for newspapers and two novels, one of which, Lark des Neiges (Snow Lark in paperback) became the feature film Suzanne.