num_pages: 713
description: The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald's follow-up novel to her bestselling debut (and Oprah Book Club pick), Fall on Your Knees, opens in 1962 when the McCarthy family moves from Germany to their new home on a Canadian air force base near London, Ontario. Madeleine, eight and already a blossoming comic, is particularly close with her father, Jack, an air force officer. Her loving Acadian mother, Mimi, and older brother Mike round out this family, whose simple goodness reflects the glow of an era that seemed like paradise. But all that is about to change. The Cuban Missile Crisis is looming, and Jack, loyal and gullible, suddenly has an important task to carry out that involves a scientist--a former Nazi--in Canada.
language: English
title: The Way the Crow Flies
titlecomplete: The Way the Crow Flies
genres: Canada, Book Club, Historical, Historical Fiction, Canadian Literature, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 14273
places: Toronto, Ontario, Centralia
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Fiction Book, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: HarperCollins