Twenty-Six by Leo Mckay Jr
When disaster strikes a Nova Scotia mine, killing twenty-six men, a town and a family are changed irrevocably. _x000D_ _x000D_ Shifting back and forth in time, Leo McKay Jr.'s unflinching, bestselling work of Atlantic Canadian fiction excavates the rich interior lives of the men and women of the Burrows family: Ziv and Arvel, brothers drawn back to the mine where their ancestors toiled; their father, Ennis, a former union organizer whose body is failing him; Ziv's ex-girlfriend, Meta, who is attempting to start over in Japan; and Arvel's wife, Jackie, who leaves her husband's drinking and volatile temper behind for a better life in Halifax._x000D_ Set in the aftermath of the explosion and ensuing investigation, Twenty-six is a "cleanly crafted, richly evocative portrait of a community of families" (Vancouver Sun), inspired in part by the tragic Westray mining disaster. This critically acclaimed work, now back in print for a new generation, lays bare the complexities of intergenerational trauma, industrial violence, and the universal human struggle.
Leo McKay Jr.'s best known book is the novel Twenty-six, which Canada Reads named one of the forty most important Canadian books of the first decade of the century. It won the Dartmouth Book Award and was chosen for the One Book Nova Scotia event. His debut collection of stories, Like This, also won the Dartmouth Book Award, and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. He lives in Mi'kma'ki, the unceded, ancestral home of the Mi'kmaw people, where he has been a high school teacher for almost thirty years.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781774715390 |
| ISBN 10 | 1774715392 |
| Title | Twenty-Six |
| Author | Leo Mckay Jr |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nimbus Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 2026-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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