num_pages: 290
description: Spring 1989. Three young people leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own songs of migration. Each ends up in Montreal each on a voyage of self-discovery dealing with the mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree.Filled with humor charm and good storytelling this novel shows the surprising links between cartography garbage-obsessed archeologists pirates past and present a mysterious book with no cover and a broken compass whose needle obstinately points to the Aleutian village of Nikolski (a minuscule village inhabited by thirty-six people five thousand sheep and an indeterminate number of dogs).
language: English
title: Nikolski
publisher: Trumpeter