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The Burin Girl is the fictional story of Johanna O’Shea, a Newfoundland outport girl who grows up on the southern coast of the Burin Peninsula at the turn of the twentieth century. She truly comes of age in the crucible of widowed poverty in the city of St. John’s during the Depression.Johanna is the core around which the novel revolves, but the story of her life resounds with the affection, humour and cheeky conversations of the minor and major characters who flesh it out. Her love affairs, however improbable, make perfect sense because she is who she is. She raises a crop of resilient (an overused modern word Johanna would have had little use for), strong-willed and irreverent youngsters. . She tells her children to take whatever they need without apology: survival is the game. In the end, that philosophy explains her, and in the end, her children understand her choices. Read more
