Twenty-One Cardinals by Saucier, Jocelyne

Twenty-One Cardinals (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781552453070)

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Twenty-One Cardinals by Saucier, Jocelyne

Twenty-One Cardinals

$17.95
Twenty-One Cardinals by Saucier, Jocelyne

Twenty-One Cardinals

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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We're nothing like other families. We are self-made. We are an essence unto ourselves, unique and dissonant, the only members of our species. Livers of humdrum lives who flitted around us got their wings burned. We're not mean, but we can bare our teeth. People didn't hang around when a band of Cardinals made its presence known.

With twenty-one kids, the Cardinal family is a force of nature. And now, after not being in the same room for decades, they're congregating to celebrate their father, a prospector who discovered the zinc mine their now-deserted hometown in northern Quebec was built around. But as the siblings tell the tales of their feral childhood, we discover that Ang le, the only Cardinal with a penchant for happiness, has gone missing - although everyone has pretended not to notice for years. Why the silence? What secrets does the mine hold?


Author: Jocelyne Saucier
ISBN-10: 1552453073
ISBN-13: 9781552453070
Publisher: Coach House Books
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2015
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/10/2015
By Jocelyne Saucier
By Jocelyne Saucier
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Jocelyne Saucier was born in New Brunswick and lives in Abitibi, Québec. Two of her previous novels, La vie comme une image (House of Sighs) and Jeanne sur les routes (Jeanne's Road) were finalists for the Governor General's Award. Il pleuvait des oiseaux (And the Birds Rained Down) garnered her the Prix des Cinq continents de la Francophonie, making her the first Canadian to win the award. The book was a CBC Canada Reads Selection in 2015.


Rhonda Mullins is a writer and translator living in Montréal. And the Birds Rained Down, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Il pleuvait des oiseaux, was a CBC Canada Reads Selection. It was also shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, as were her translations of Élise Turcotte's Guyana and Hervé Fischer's The Decline of the Hollywood Empire.

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