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Compton's Tide Road is about perception and perspective, May 16 2011
This review is from: Tide Road (Paperback)
In Valerie Compton's Tide Road from Goose Lane Editions, Sonia loses her adult daughter. The general feeling is that the daughter Stella has fallen through the ice on the river and drowned. Stella has left behind her husband and her own young daughter. Sonia is convinced that she has just run away.
It is 1965 and rural Prince Edward Island is the setting of the story, a place well behind the economic and technological development of the shiny major cities, Montreal and Toronto. But the easy slow nature of this bucolic community is a wonderful counterpoint to the turmoil within Sonia as she searches for her daughter, and for some meaning in her disappearance.
In Tide Road, Compton shows us how being deceived by our breadth of vision and ignoring the details within our reach, can be a metaphor for dissociative amnesia. How a panoramic vista can disguise the details within our reach, and how those details, whether ignored or forgotten, as well as our choices and failures, have served to not only shape us, but then through us, influence and shape our children.
Compton's Tide Road is a well told story of vision, choices made, forgotten dreams, failures endured, and reclaiming life.
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