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Canadian Margaret Laurence, who died in 1987, wrote quite a bunch of novels but only five of them have more than a couple hundred ratings on Goodreads. The Diviners is her only book to be listed in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, and also was awarded The Governor General's Award, which seems to be similar to the Pulitzer for Canadian books. It also has the highest average rating by Goodreaders of those five.
The novel follows the protagonist Morag Gunn, as she moves from girlhood to midd ...more
The novel follows the protagonist Morag Gunn, as she moves from girlhood to midd ...more
When the book opens, Morag Gunn is a writer living in Ontario, with an 18-year-old daughter who is worryingly intent on hitchhiking to the west of Canada. In flashbacks (called "memorybank movies") we slowly hear about Morag's childhood as an orphan in the small rural town of Manawaka, where she was taken in by an impoverished couple, and how she survived and escaped to college while always carrying that life in her deepest being.
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