@article{716865,
      recid = {716865},
      author = {Lawson, Mary,},
      title = {Crow Lake /},
      publisher = {Bantam Dell,},
      address = {New York, N.Y. :},
      pages = {293 pages ;},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives  of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate  Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and  torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love,  and tragedy. Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so  quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know  from the opening page that this is the real thing-a  literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author  of immense talent. Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story  set in the rural "badlands" of northern Ontario, where  heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For  the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the  sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible  events occur-offstage. Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose  tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in  reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate  Morrison was her older brother Matt's protegee, her  fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in  the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify  organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state  of her own emotional life. And she thinks she's outgrown  her siblings-Luke, Matt, and Bo-who were once her entire  world. In this universal drama of family love and  misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven  underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with  heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually  overturning one's expectations right to the very end.  Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de  force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of  fiction writers today.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/716865},
}