![]() ![]() While readers might be expecting a survival story - two children fighting for their lives against the elements - The Innocents is more complex, and much subtler, than that. And, after burying them separately at sea, the youngsters - Evered and his younger sister Ada - are left alone, the only residents of a small cove on Newfoundland’s wild coast, neither of them older than twelve (although they have no real way of knowing their ages). Within two paragraphs, the youngsters’ mother dies. Their mother laid the infant in a shallow trough beside the only other grave in the cove and she sang the lullaby she’d sung all her children to sleep with, which was as much as they had to offer of ceremony.” ![]() They lost their baby sister before the first snowfall. John’s, Nfld., writer Michael Crummey, begins with tragedy. ![]()
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