Not Even the Sound of a River
Not Even the Sound of a River
Margo Beredjiklian
, Cheryl Johnson
, Brad MULLER
, Jude Castillo
, Sandra Furlotte
, Catherine Lee
, Lynn Mullen
, Marilyn Stanley
, Noelle Walsh
, Mary Dallimore
, Alanna Virtue
, Dot Mann
, Andrea Pole
, Patricia Johnson
, Sebastian Schulman
, Agnes Marshall
, Louise Walsh
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Mary Spurr
, Natasha Andres
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Jane Graham
, Mary Montague
, Sandra Lackie
, Deana Bueley
, Mark Gorman
, Don Gershman
, Ashley Raskovsky
, Mary Therrien
, Andre Labonte
, cassandra schiemann
, Lauren Barr
, Arvia Chen
, Joseph Chirayil
, Mary Lester
, Trisha Corkwell
, Sarah Schwartz
, Elle Kishia
, Carol Brown
, Melissa Poremba
, Barry Kazimer
, toni velthuis
, Debbie Rodgers
, Jennifer Beyak
, Tanis Anne
, Beth Dekoker
, Eva Esmann
, Rose Ghaedi
, Ryan Woods
, Kevin Smith
, Joe Mitchell
, Brittney Warren
, Kim Cappellina
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Susan Toy
, Tanya Korigan
, Jeanette Burchaski
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Linda MacIntyre
, Paula Ritchie
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, jane luce
, Kym Marsh
, Kim Fenton
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Filomena Falocco
, Tiffany C
, Sara Mody
, Michelle Arsenault
, Piroska Blanchette
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Connie Braun
, Rose Hately
, Robert Hykawy
, Meghan Barton
, Marin Beck
, Stephanie Trotter
, Karen LeBlanc
, Mary Woods
, Patricia Scott
, Michael Edwards
, Charles Leblanc
, Lynn Bechtel
, Claire Gear
, Vicki Bedford
, Roberta Cox
, Lindsey Andronak
, Paula Adam
, Kartik Gupta
, Chris Lantz
, Margaret McKay
, Debbie Youngman
, BJ Underwood
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Irene O’Neill
, Dorothy Wong
, Dorothy Wong
, Patricia Williamson
, Julie M.
, Patricia McKeown
, Kim Carswell
, Joanne Epp
, Ken Gilmour
, Catherine Westerberg
, Rodney Cross
, Katie Macalister
, Anita Jones
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Jeff Gotell
, Elaine Pereira
, Lara Maynard
, Julie Kaniak
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Joanne Santolupo
, Lisa Mallia
, Laura Patterson
, C. Ray
, Christa Seeley
, Claudie Léveillé
, Stephen Pinder
, Kristin Farrell
, kristine hibbs
, Elizabeth Blondin
, Sue Zahorak
, Joan Lindo
, Stephen Leckie
, Benita Hartwell
, Allison Dube
, Mary C. Kelly
, Kim Driscoll
, Klaryssa Hawkins
, Crystal Collins
, Maureen Brownlee
, Anna Rowe
, Lynn Andrews
, Debra Fisher
, Sharon Forzley
, Janice Hutchinson
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, Rhona Brinkman
, Philip Malcolmson
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, A Walsh
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Hanna drives down the St. Lawrence River to her late mother’s hometown, hoping to find out more about the distant woman who began to reveal herself only through notebooks discovered in her effects. As the river widens, so does Hanna’s understanding of the matriarchs in her family. She learns that her mother’s one true love, Antoine, died on the St. Lawrence when she was twenty, and that her grandmother also lost a young love to the same water. Both women remained shipwrecked after these tragedies, their tales mirroring other survivors’—such as the few who did not perish in the Empress of Ireland sinking when more than a thousand people lost their lives on the river in 1914.
Told through multiple perspectives, newspaper accounts, and historical documents, Dorion’s narrative exquisitely describes the depths of love, the reality of living when dreams have failed us, and the complex nuance of blood ties. Not Even the Sound of a River is a tender and profound story that defies time or place.
