Flora awakens to a changed world ...
Upper Canada, 1804, on the edge of Chippewa territory. Flora MacCallum
wakes from a malarial coma and witnesses the staggering loss her
siblings have endured during their first days on the mosquito-infested
banks of the Chenail ...cartÈ. Lured by Lord Selkirk's promise of
fertile grazing land and freedom far from the Highland clearances,
Flora's father staked his life to bring his family across the Atlantic,
alongside a motley assortment of Scottish islanders, to settle this
deeply forested and foreboding land.
During the settlement's first bleak North American winter, Flora
discovers hope through an unlikely friendship. The eldest son of a
Chippewa chief offers Flora the gift of his mother tongue. It is a gift
which shifts Flora's relationship with the land and the truth of her own
spirit. As their furtive fellowship attracts attention, conflict arises
in Baldoon. And among Flora's own family.
Set amid the privation of a struggling frontier settlement, the
seduction of the natural world, and an intimate Chippewa forest camp,
ANANGOKAA is the evocative coming-of-age story of a young woman who must
determine what sacrifices she is willing to make for the life she longs
to live.
Fiction.
