The Loons (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Laurence
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Plot: Sketch
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: Manawaka, a small prairie town in Canada
- Principal Characters: Vanessa MacLeod, Piquette Tonnerre, Dr. MacLeod, Mrs. MacLeod
- Genres: Short fiction, Sketch
- Subjects: Suffering, Racism, Native Americans or American Indians, Ethnic groups, Immigration or emigration
- Locales: Manawaka, Canada
The Story
Jules Tonnerre, half French, half Indian, settled in Manawaka after the Meti Indian uprising of 1885. Three generations of his family now live in a collection of shacks, surrounded by junk, in the river valley outside Manawaka. The town is Scots-Irish and Ukrainian, and the Tonnerres are not part of it in any sense. They work irregularly, they are sometimes involved in drunken brawls, and their domestic lives are as chaotic as their housing.
Because Piquette Tonnerre, Jules's granddaughter, has a tubercular leg, Dr. MacLeod wants to take her with his own family...
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