We started with five, but we’re finally down to the winner of this year’s CBC Canada Reads: Lisa Moore’s February. Nominated and defended by Newfoundland comedian Trent McClellan, it tells the story of a Newfoundland woman whose life is shattered after the sinking of the Ocean Ranger, which kills her husband, and her struggles to move on and raise her family without him. It’s competition was the Quebec-set novel Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan, which was nominated by Montreal-born actor Jay Baruchel, a 1945 novel about a Quebecois family with both French and English heritage.
This year’s Canada Reads theme was “Turf Wars” and each of the five novels nominated were from different regions of Canada. February was Newfoundland and Labrador’s entry. Ontario’s entry was Jane Urquhart’s Away, but it was eliminated on Tuesday.
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Megan Patterson is the Science and Technology Editor at Paper Droids and currently a Toronto Standard intern. She has also written for WORN Fashion Journal, Elevate, and Salon Magazines. She also tweets more than is healthy or wise.
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