The THEORY of CROWS

David A. Robertson. THE THEORY OF CROWS. Harper, 2022.

Picked this up from the National Indigenous Day display at the library. Would like to own a copy. DAR's first adult novel. Set in Winnipeg and the rivers around Norway House. Two more good reasons to want to read it. Matthew McIvor and his daughter Holly decide to take some of Moshom's ashes home to the trapline where he grew up. Their relationship has had its tensions. Holly feels that her father has failed to support her, did not show up at her water polo meet. And that he is skating on thin ice (sexting a woman from work). She learns through counselling, dreams, secret letters, that his behaviour is part of his own being "fucked up" by anxiety (and medication) which he has not yet learned to manage on his own. Once the plot gets to their being in a canoe on the river, think a kinder gentler more northern Deliverance.

The land remembers you and you remember the land, even if you nave never been there before. And the crows remember too. Bears are our relatives.