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Aug 02, 2010
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This cross between a novel and short-story collection is about two people--Luzina Tousignant, mother of about a dozen or so children; and Father Joseph-Marie, a missionary Capuchin monk--who live out their lives on the edge of civilization (northern Manitoba in between the Wars), yet who are filled with a love of humanity without regard to creed or colour or language or ethnicity, and, in their way, bring to their communities and their families the best of what humanity can do for each other: sa
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