Cape Breton Road
First sentence
The power line cut like a firebreak through the wooded ridge and Innis follow it easily now, his private road, could take it a long way beyond his uncle's boundary and cross, unseen here in the upland, other people's woods, veering down into them when something caught his eye...
Description
"This is the story of Innis Corbett, a young man born into a Highlander community in Cape Breton, whose inhabitants are held by ties of memory and blood. As a small child Innis leaves with his mother and father to live in Boston. After his father is killed in a car accident, Innis is raised by his mother, a woman with a weakness for men and drink. When Innis gets into trouble over a series of car thefts (fancy cars are his soft spot, along with smoking pot), he is deported to Canada, a solution worse to him than going to prison.". "It's the late 1970s, Innis has been living with his bachelor uncle in rural Nova Scotia, a place that has shaped his family and continues to absorb and challenge him. He takes refuge in the wild, dense woods, where he devises a plan to grow marijuana. This venture assuages his loneliness and gives him something to care for, a secret of his own. Then Claire, an attractive former flight attendant nearing 40, enters the household. So begins an entanglement that leads to suspicion, jealousy, and ultimately to violence."--BOOK JACKET.