A Forest for Calum (2011)
Available in many bookstores and on-line. Also available for your e-reader from Kobo, Kindle store and Apple iTunes.
International customers can find the book on Amazon (ANZO: thenile.com.au)
Longlisted, IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award
Runner-up, Dartmouth Book Award
Click here to view a series of interviews with Frank Macdonald
The story is Roddie’s. The stage is his guardian and grandfather Calum’s. A quiet and stoic man, Calum Gillies and his aging friends illuminate for us the changing world around them: the loss of the coal mines, the labour strife and lean years endured, the religious parochialism that divides families and communities and, most important, a disappearing language. The setting is Cape Breton; the themes of cultural and rural change and decline are universal.