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category: Fiction
published: Feb 2011
ISBN:9781926972756
publisher: TouchWood Editions
imprint: Brindle & Glass

The Reckoning of Boston Jim

by Claire Mulligan

tagged: historical, literary
Description

Longlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize at the 2008 BC Book Prizes

The colony of British Columbia, 1863. Boston Jim Milroy, a lone trapper and trader with an eidetic memory and a tragic unreckoned past, has become obsessed with reciprocating a seemingly minor kindness from the loquacious Dora Hume, a settler in the Cowichan Valley of Vancouver Island. Dora's kindness and her life story both haunt Boston Jim, and his precise recollections inspire his attempts to buy something suitable for her in return. In The Reckoning of Boston Jim, his search eventually leads him to the gold rush town of Barkerville on the trail of Dora's capricious husband Eugene—the one thing, after all, that she really wants.

About the Author

Claire Mulligan

Editorial Reviews

"Dazzling debut novel . . . Deeply historical but with a strong contemporary approach and solid storytelling, it’s the sort of book that makes other novelists jealous."


"A complex and evocative exploration of the repayment of ethical debts and the power of human memory in forming personal identity."

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