The danger tree: Memory, war, and the search for a family's past

About this book

Emulating the circuitous tales told by his mothers relatives the Goodyears of Newfoundland David Macfarlane has crafted a masterpiece of history and memory that will remain indelibly in the minds of its readers. Macfarlane weaves the major events of Newfoundlands twentieth century the ravages of tuberculosis; the great seal-hunt disaster; the bitter debate over whether to become part of Canada; and above all the First World War into a saga of the ill-starred yet heroic fortunes of his family who were rarely in control of events but often at the center of them. With deep affection he brings to life a multigenerational cast of characters who are as colorful as only Newfoundlanders can be heroes and charlatans pirates and dreamers whose humanity manages to illuminate and enrich our own.