num_pages: 848
description: The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of high-spirited, eight-year-old Madeleine, who welcomes her family's posting to a quiet Air Force base near the Canadian border. Secure in the love of her beautiful mother, she is unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in a web of secrets. When a very local murder intersects with global forces, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine will be forced to learn a lesson about the ambiguity of human morality -- one she will only begin to understand when she carries her quest for the truth, and the killer, into adulthood twenty years later.
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: Harper Perennial