Book Review: "The Innocents" By Michael Crummey

The air is dark. The setting is desolate. The timing is profoundly distant and isolated.
What could be more mind blowing is the manner in which two young kids find themselves after the parents illnesses and sudden death.

It's a time in late 1800's we presume when Northern Newfoundland is struggling but no more so than those who are impoverished trying to survive off the frozen tundra.
It's a time when the ships can only come through twice a year and even then only for exchanges of trade.

It's a fascinating and surreal moment but when the remainder of the plot and the connections beyond siblings is revealed it made be render the book as 'too much too handle.'