The sentimentalists
By: Johanna Skibsrud
Publisher: W. Heinemann
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780434021420
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Fiction; Veterans; Psychology; Older men; Fathers and daughters; Family relationships
Description: Johanna Skibsrud's debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota, and an unfinished boat in Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsrud's narrator maps her father's past.
Notes: Novel.

Originally published in Canada in 2009 by Gaspereau Press.

Winner of the ScotiaBank Giller Prize.
Table of contents: title: First published in Canada in 2009 by Gaspereau Press. Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. [Haunted by the horrific events he witnessed during the Vietnam War, Napoleon Haskell is exhausted from years spent battling his memories. As his health ultimately declines, his two daughters move him from his trailer in North Dakota to Casablanca, Ontario, to live with the father of Napoleon's friend who was killed in action. It is to Casablanca, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains of the former town, that Napoleon's youngest daughter also retreats when her own life comes unhinged. Living with the two old men, she finds her father in the twilight of his life and rapidly slipping into senility. With love and insatiable curiosity, she devotes herself to learning the truth about him; and through the fog, Napoleon's past begins to emerge.].