Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, Caribbean &
Canada and the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award; Finalist for
the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Thomas Head
Raddall Atlantic Book Award, and the Winterset Award
When a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of
Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find
inside it is a man, silent and reeking of fish, but remarkably alive.
The discovery of this mysterious person, soon christened Judah, sets the
town scrambling for answers as its most prominent citizens weigh in on
whether he is man or beast, blessing or curse, miracle or demon. Though
Judah is a shocking addition, the town of Paradise Deep is already full
of unusual characters. King-me Sellers, self-appointed patriarch, has it
in for an inscrutable woman known only as Devine's Widow, with whom he
has a decades-old feud. Her granddaughter, Mary Tryphena, is just a
child when Judah washes ashore, but finds herself tied to him all her
life in ways she never expects. Galore is the story of the saga that
develops between these families, full of bitterness and love, spanning
two centuries.
With Paradise Deep, award-winning novelist Michael Crummey imagines a
realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is
impossible to discern. Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical,
Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us.
