Review: THE 53RD PARALLEL by Carl Nordgren (RIVER OF LAKES #1)

A most lyrical and poetically imagined novel, which flows with the lilting tongue found in an Irish storyteller beside the hearth-fire, and the boundless appreciation of Nature and the wilds possessed for millennia by indigenous tribes, THE 53RD PARALLEL reaches back into the 17th century in the area later to become Ontario, Canada, then forward to.Ireland, from approaching World War Ii to.the mid-1950's. Hopes, dreams, grinding  poverty, hopelessness, despair and patriotism and rebellion all mix into this melting pot in this first novel of series to be savored, not rushed.