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"True North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the damage scarred into the American soil. The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force more than a father, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister, Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way, and often to play parent to their dissolute elders. As David comes to adulthood - often guided and enlightened by the unforgettable, intractable, courageous women he loves - he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers' rapacious destruction of the woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, as well as the working people who made their wealth possible. In the course of thirty years of searching for the truth of what his family has done and trying to make amends, David looks closely at the root of his father's evil - and threatens to destroy himself."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fiction, Conflict of generations, Family-owned business enterprises, Lumber trade, Fathers and sons, Large type books, Entreprises familiales, Romans, nouvelles, Conflit de générations, Pères et fils, Bois, Commerce, Fiction, sagas, Fathers and sons, fiction, Michigan, fictionPlaces
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True north: a novel
2004, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
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0802117732 9780802117731
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