Heartbreaking and empathetic, Hooper’s fine novel is a haunting evocation of changing times and the power of place. Play Sample Our Homesick Songs Written by: Emma Hooper Narrated by: Nicole Power Unabridged Audiobook Play Free With 30 Day Free Trial Add to Cart - 17. With stark prose, Hooper captures the desperation and difficulty of life on the edge of civilization while maintaining the foundation of tenderness as her characters take care of one another in the face of near-insurmountable struggle. Listen Free to Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper with a Free Trial.

When the government halts public services and advises residents to leave the desolate town, the Connors must make drastic choices if they wish to cling to their way of life. With little to hold their attention, Cora and Finn find their own projects: Cora restyles abandoned houses in the theme of countries she dreams of visiting Finn investigates the local plant life and begins to formulate a theory about the missing fish. To support the family, Aiden and Martha alternate months caring for the children and working at an energy plant north of Big Running. Parents Aiden and Martha both grew up in Big Running and decided to stay with their adolescent children, Cora and Finn, when the other families began to move away. Through the mist and the wind and the rain. Such factual details are blurred or ignored in Hoopers fairy tale. Newfoundland, and is based on true events of the devastating 1990s Atlantic fisheries collapse. The Connor family lives in Big Running, Newfoundland, an oceanside village that has fallen on hard times after the fish have mysteriously disappeared. The narrative present of Our Homesick Songs is 1993, one year after the cod moratorium. Emma Hooper - Our Homesick Songs, Paperback - DescriptionFrom Emma Hooper, acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine Pick. A family struggles to hold on to the only home it has ever known in this moving novel from Hooper ( Etta and Otto and Russell and James). Our Homesick Songs Hardcover Augby Emma Hooper (Author) 69 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 5.00 29 Used from 1.35 10 New from 4.99 Paperback 17.00 31 Used from 3.72 24 New from 11.61 Audio CD 25.99 2 Used from 19.99 5 New from 21.

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