{"product_id":"9781037802980","title":"Tell It to the Water","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed and bestselling author Donna Morrissey, a memoir of love, grief, and the meaning of family that sings with her inimitable style and the voices of her unforgettable Newfoundland parents and siblings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA voice-driven, compact, and powerful memoir of   siblings dealing with the loss of their mother while trying to save   their stubborn, loving, but infuriating father from the self-destruction of   his own grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach of Donna’s four surviving siblings speak in   their unique voices, arguing, laughing, singing. Their   never-far-from-mind deceased brother Ford is present in the background, as is   their mother, but their father “’Nerk” is the complicated centre around which   they all turn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man who represents a way   of life nearly gone even from the far-flung outposts of Newfoundland, Enerchius   Osmond is never fully himself unless he is tramping the land with a gun—\u003ci\u003eyou   always shoots to kill, you never let anything suffer\u003c\/i\u003e, is his constant   lesson—or mucking about in his remote, hand-built cabin, or on the water skirting seals, pan-ice, and looming swells. The siblings bring him to Halifax after his   wife dies, but staring at an asphalt driveway instead of the sea nearly kills   him, and so they take him home. Which nearly does them all in as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA distillation of love and grief, of guilt and   celebration, shot through with Donna’s—and her whole family’s—unquenchable   humour and resourcefulness, this memoir is for anyone who knows just how   infuriating family can be, and just how great a gift.","brand":"Donna Morrissey (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Canada |  Hardback | Rough front |  2026-08-11","offer_id":48468406698239,"sku":"9781037802980","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f9bd165a-bd3d-4e04-9604-3a154c3313e6.jpg?v=1777563875","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781037802980","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}