CROSSING TO TADOUSSAC

Frederick E. Bryson • Literary Fiction / Historical Fiction / Political Fiction / Canadian Literature

Book Description

The FLQ have bombed the Montreal Stock Exchange. The streets are charged and a referendum is called on secession. CROSSING TO TADOUSSAC is a novel about a woman coming of age in Quebec during the years of the Quiet Revolution. With the political turmoil in the province mirroring the psychological conflict in her person, our heroine finds herself searching for the balance of freedom and liberation in her own life while witnessing this same internal struggle reproduced in the conflict of her people coming to maturity and seizing their place in the world. She quickly understands that to realize her personal emancipation, she must join the chorus.

Five years in the writing, Frederick E. Bryson captures a defining moment in Canadian history when independence becomes a tangible dream for Quebec's francophone majority. \"Society in flux is always fodder for storytelling,\" Bryson notes, \"but Montreal in October, 1970, may be the closest we've come in North America to outright insurrection since the American Civil War.\"

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\"Bryson has reached an even higher level with this work. The threads of Quebec's past which contribute to the history of Canada are bright, sometimes bloody, often filled with passion, and always beguiling. Bryson captures these verities of Quebec life, past and present, in a delightful and discerning fashion. This is his finest book yet.\"

Jim Casada, Writer

\"Any number of authors might have written the story of Yvonne Boulanger, a young woman caught up in the revolutionary and secessionist fervor of Quebec. None, however, could have done so with the beautiful storytelling mastery of language as Frederick E. Bryson has done in Crossing to Tadoussac.\"

Paul M. Howey, Editor, The Laurel of Asheville

\"Captures a defining moment in Canadian history when independence becomes a tangible dream for Quebec's francophone majority… captures the intensity and confusion of the 1970 'October Crisis.'\"

Caroline Kehne, Lake Champlain Weekly

Recognition

• Nominated for the QWF (Quebec Writers' Federation) Award for Fiction Novel of the Year

Author Bio

Raised in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, FREDERICK E. BRYSON is steeped in a tradition of storytelling. A trained engineer, he has published hundreds of articles in industrial and business publications in the US and Canada. His first novel, Scent of the River (2003), tells the story of the lone Cherokee Indian who resisted eviction from the tribe's ancestral homeland in Southern Appalachia by the US Army in 1838. A sequel, Wind in the Web (2008), followed. CROSSING TO TADOUSSAC, his third novel, followed a move to Montreal and his discovery that Quebec shares a passion of place similar to his home region. Today, Bryson lives in Montreal and is working on a character spin-off of CROSSING and a historical novel about the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.

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