Causeway

Linden MacIntyre vividly recalls the day construction started on the Canso Causeway, the day that Change - always for the better and always from away - arrived to link his small village, Port Hastings, on Cape Breton Island, to the wide world of the mainland. MacIntyre's boyhood world may have been small, but his powerful recollections of a disappearing community - which included a Gaelic-speaking grandmother; locals like Louie the Cat; and Dan Rory, the father MacIntyre struggles to know and love - bring the past exuberantly to life. Causeway is a highly evocative memoir, at once a spirited coming-of-age story, a portrait of a vanishing way of life, and a luminous reflection on fathers and sons.