num_pages: 310
description: Winner of Canada Reads 2013 and longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn 1982 the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara one of those left behind when her husband Cal drowns on the rig. It begins in the present-day more than twenty-five years later but spirals back again and again to the February that persists in Helen's mind and heart.Writing at the peak of her form her steadfast refusal to sentimentalize coupled with an almost shocking ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds Lisa Moore gives us her strongest work yet. Here is a novel about complex love and cauterizing grief about past and present and how memory knits them together about a fiercely close community and its universal struggles and finally about our need to imagine a future no matter how fragile before we truly come home. This is a profound gorgeous heart-stopping work from one of our best writers.
language: English
title: February
publisher: House of Anansi Press