In this brilliant and poetic novel, BRIAN DOYLE brings us back to the Gatineau River near Ottawa, the world of UP TO LOW and UNCLE RONALD. Mary Ann Alice McCrank was named for the pretty church bell in the steeple of St. Martin's Church in Martindale. She has the soul of a poet...
In 1926, Canadian seventh-grader Mary Ann Alice McCrank, named after her church's bell and proudly possessing the soul of a poet, describes the changes the new Paugan Dam will bring to her riverside town of Low and also carefully plans her first kiss.