 First edition | |
| Author | Lynn Coady |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Psychological fiction |
| Set in | Nova Scotia |
| Publisher | Doubleday Canada |
Publication date | 2002 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 416 p (First edition) |
| ISBN | 9780385258685 |
Saints of Big Harbour is a novel by Lynn Coady, published in 2002 by Doubleday Canada. It was Coady's first novel to be published in the United States.
Plot summary[edit]
In Saints of Big Harbour, Coady portrays a small community of Cape Breton Island, found off the coast of Nova Scotia. The book focuses on the perspectives of the main character, Guy Boucher, a fatherless Acadian teenager, and of those who surround him: his alcoholic uncle Isadore, a quietly wise girl named Pam, his draft-dodger English teacher and a group of boys stuck in emotional adolescence. As the story unfolds it becomes clear that Guy lives in a community firmly characterized by clichés of gender, beauty, strength, family and love.