Used book – The Sawgamet Wood, Alexi Zentner

In the immense forests of the Canadian Great North, in Sawgamet, a logging and gold prospecting settlement, the cold is so intense, the logging so dangerous, and tempers so volatile, that merely surviving is almost an offense against nature. A woman is dying. Stephen, her son, now a pastor, gazes at her fragile body. As a new winter approaches, memories of that formidable and beautiful season overwhelm him: the disappearance of his father and young sister Mary, taken by the ice when he was only 10 years old; the stories of his grandfather Jeannot and his beloved wife Martine… A lost, wild, and wondrous world comes back to life, where golden caribou rub shoulders with forest witches, where men are revealed in the stunning beauty of winter. This debut novel by Alexi Zentner is of a terrifying beauty. Xavier Houssin, Le Monde des livres.