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Sep 16, 2021jeanie123 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
We are dust, and to dust we shall return. 100 years after the Great Depression and Dust Bowl of the 1930's, dust is once again sickening and killing people due to the "Great Withering" which has destroyed the forests and altered the climate. From the sugar maple stands of Nova Scotia, to the prairie of Saskatchewan and the forests of British Columbia, the story moves through time and place and the generations of a contrived family not always related by blood, but by awkward circumstance. The beauty of Michael Christie's writing is inspirational and spiritually moving. But of course this book appealed to me, having lived all my life in BC, once working for a paper company that had HR MacMillan as its chairman, having later worked in the forest industry and attempting to understand both the economic and the ecologic sides of the amazing coastal rainforest it was my privilege to step into. It's a brilliant book and, although I would have liked a different ending, I think it ended just as it needed to.