The Woods (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Amber McMillan | knygos.lt

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"It's about moving to Protection Island with her husband and small daughter. And it's genius for a number of reasons. It starts in Toronto and does such a wonderful job of capturing the sort of big city stress that so many young families are now dealing with … and the dreaming of a simpler life."
- CBC

"If you are toying with the notion of island life, McMillan’s The Woods is necessary and honest research into the pros, cons and head-banging, eye-rolling panorama of life on a tiny island."
- The Vancouver Sun


"If Thoreau had retreated to Walden Pond and found himself surrounded by an oddball assortment of introverted freaks, professional gossips, passive-aggressive boaters and surly archivists, he might have written this book."
- Michael Crummey, author of Sweetland and Galore

"The Woods is the cure-all to Perfect Island Getaway nostalgia. It's a story of everyday domestic survival, peopled by both loveable eccentrics and possibly murdersome cranks, foregrounding the little-known history of violence on Protection Island. Amber McMillan's writing balances an eye for the unusual and resiliently beautiful with a sympathy for the frailties common to all her islanders."
- Kevin Chong, author of Baroque-a-Nova, Neil Young Nation and Beauty Plus Pity

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The Woods: A Year on Protection Island is a non-fiction account of one year living amidst the unique and unsettling atmosphere of small town-island life in the Georgia Strait where the measure of one’s success doesn’t rely on status or income, but on the skillful handling of neighbours, the resourcefulness for survival, and the adaptation to both the rigorous outdoors of the Pacific Northwest and the equally challenging human community of need, trade, and negotiated civility.

These are stories of the people and families who sought refuge here, for different reasons and with different outcomes making their way through the murky terrain of living on an island.

Like no other community on Earth, this small place is packed with secret corners, eerie histories and a whispering darkness. This is the complicated convergence of human capacities: from mysteries and homicides to some of the greatest gestures of generosity and equality.

This is the place of the close-up encounter of who we are stripped of distractions and escapist entertainment; who we are in the woods.