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In "True North," Jim Harrison follows David Burkett, the scion of a Michigan timber dynasty, as he wrestles with the moral costs of his family's lumber business. Raised amid a toxic home—his father’s malevolence, his mother’s alcoholism, and his sister’s rebellious defiance—David and his sister are left to fend for themselves and often caretaking their dissolute parents. As adulthood beckons, David is guided by resilient women in his life and ultimately confronts the devastating legacy of his forefathers' exploitation of the Upper Peninsula’s forests and the working people who sustained the enterprise. Over thirty years, he searches for truth, seeks to make amends, and must face the roots of his father's cruelty and the possibility of destroying himself in the process.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Family & Domestic Fiction/Family Saga
Authors: Jim Harrison
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