Complex sentence: As with her first novel, "Crow Lake", the setting is Northern Ontario in the mid 1930s where Arthur and Jake, the sons of a farmer vie for the affections of Laura, a newcomer to the community.
Split into simpler sentences: As with her first novel, "Crow Lake", the setting is Northern Ontario. It is the mid 1930s and Arthur and Jake, the sons of a farmer vie for the affections of Laura, a newcomer to the community.