The Crane follows the difficult choices confronting someone who cannot go on being lied to and explores how they carry on in the face of hardship.
It’s 1968 and James Anderson’s twin brother Dave has just been killed in the Vietnam war. Knowing he is next, James abandons his family’s military legacy, evading the draft and travelling to Newfoundland to fulfill a promise his brother made to a fellow soldier. Unwittingly swept into an intergenerational family secret while on assignment for a St. John’s newspaper, James finds something in Newfoundland that could just save his life.
Monica Kidd is an award-winning journalist and the author of seven books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. She works as a physician and divides her time between Calgary and St. John’s.
