I’m also moving home to Cape Breton, after my book tour, in December.

It’s a complicated set of feelings familiar to people from Atlantic Canada and rural areas in general.  I never wanted to be one of the young ones who left forever.  It’s a test, we’ll see.   Never know unless you try.

Here is an interesting essay on PEI, Cape Breton and Newfoundland: “Folk Culture and the Myth of Return”  (link)

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