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brianreynolds
Jul 05, 2015brianreynolds rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Jocelyne Saucier's And the Birds Rained Down posed an interesting question about the right to chose one's time of death; she set her novel in a place that is of special personal interest to me; the potential for interest in bush fires and pot raids seems pretty great to me. I can't help but feel like I missed something. I felt no intellectual or emotional involvement in the right to life issue as it was presented nor did it seem to play any significant role in the plot. While the anecdotes about the 1916 fires in the Cochrane District were anecdotal, they didn't drive the story; instead, they drove the sometimes-narrator. They didn't move me anywhere close to the edge of my chair. Perhaps size matters. Were this a shorter work, it all might have seemed more poetic. Were it longer, it might have involved this reader more.