A widowed apothecary and his young daughter navigate daily life, faith, and colonial hardships in 17th-century Quebec City.
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A widowed apothecary and his young daughter navigate daily life, faith, and colonial hardships in 17th-century Quebec City.
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Set in 18th century Quebec City, this is ostensibly the narration of a year in the life of a widowed apothecary and his young daughter. A gentle tale, full of the small joys and daily struggles of a colonist's life in a harsh and unforgiving New World. Cather explores the links between the protagonists' past lives and their current existence through a series of different portraits - the apothecary and the little girl, a coureur du bois, a Jesuit missionary living in daily privation and danger, t...
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Spirituality and faith central; Jesuit missionaries, bishops, and lay devotion depicted
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