The Innocents by Michael Crummey Bear was first published in

Bear was first published in 1976 and won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction

In a sweeping narrative that takes us from Accra to Lagos to London to New York

and what it means to try to break free

The family is quickly dragged into a spiral of violence

who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking

The Innocents by Michael Crummey Bear was first published in*Used good condition Published by Doubleday Canada 2019 From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness. A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance