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In this landmark work of history and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Joseph J.

"In 1880 the Government of Canada commenced construction of a national railroad that was promised to British Columbia as a condition of entering Confederation in 1871.

The magical story of friendship between twenty-something Sylvia Hardy and Lydie Jim, an eighty-two year old Tlingit elder from the Yukon who met when the Sylvia agreed to be Lydie’s tutor.

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam.