True North True North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the damage scarred into the American soil The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons David Burkett has
True North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the damage scarred into the American soil The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force than a father, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills He and his sister, Cynthia, a firecracker who scanTrue North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the damage scarred into the American soil The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force than a father, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills He and his sister, Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way, and often to play parent to their dissolute elders As David comes to adulthood often guided and enlightened by the unforgettable, intractable, courageous women he loves he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers rapacious destruction of the woods of Michigan s Upper Peninsula, as well as the working people who made their wealth possible In the course of thirty years of searching for the truth of what his family has done and trying to make amends, David looks closely at the root of his father s evil and threatens to destroy himself.
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Jim Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia Wahlgren Harrison, both avid readers He married Linda King in 1959 with whom he has two daughters Librarian Note There is than one author in the GoodReads database with this name See this thread for information His awards include National Academy of Arts grants 1967, 68, 69 , a Guggenheim Fellowship 1969 70 , the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountain Plains Booksellers Association, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2007.Much of Harrison s writing depicts sparsely populated regions of North America with many stories set in places such as Nebraska s Sand Hills, Michigan s Upper Peninsula, Montana s mountains, and along the Arizona Mexico border.