Reviews

The Americans Are Coming

Patty Osborne

The Miramichi region of New Brunswick is famous for its fly fishing, which is why, in The Americans Are Coming by Herb Curtis (Goose Lane), so many Americans are buying up lakefront property to build fishing lodges. Despite the title, though, that’s not what this story is about. It’s about boys and men, mostly poor and undereducated, who live in a beautiful river valley and seek love and fulfill

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