Why would someone who guffaws at sentimentality set his novel in rural Newfoundland, spanning 200 years? Why walk into a literary template already teeming with maudlin glances backward, stereotypical characterizations and bad attempts at dialect?
Firmament is (at least partially) my attempt to tackle the dearth of regional tales that only provide the easy comfort food of predictable characters, quickly built from sea-salt and Atlantic wood. I hope it succeeds.
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