Central to this remarkable day are Pink, travelling in whatever direction the wind takes him, and Jo, a young waitress whose own life twists-family betrayal, and the birth and adoption of a baby-have left her anchorless. There is the old woman who, talk she has just weeks to live, tells everyone exactly what she thinks of them-and then doesn't die the water witcher who comes to terms with his gift instead of drowning in it the woman who never leaves her own town but travels vicariously through the tales of the hitchhikers she picks up a trucker with a kind heart and the proprietor, Cass, and the story that haunts her.
These seemingly unconnected-but oddly interconnected-stories involve strange twists, turns and the kinds of chance encounters that change the way we see the world. The stories of each circle around points of departure: what sets one on one's journey. Winds of L’Acadie, a historical novel for readers ten and up, reveals a painful part of Canadian history through the relationship of two young women from different centuries.Īt a side-of-the-highway diner on a mountain pass, during one extraordinary, windy day in 1977, the paths of an odd assortment of travellers cross. Although Sarah has to come to terms with the fact that “you can’t change history,” she is willing to risk her life to do everything in her power to help her Acadian family, and finds a surprising ally in Luke. Forced to abandon her pampered, stylish lifestyle, Sarah uncovers a strength and determination she did not know she possessed. When Sarah realizes that the peace-loving Acadians are about to be torn from their homes and banished to distant shores, she is desperate to find a way to help them. She also experiences the warmth she has always wanted of a closely knit family. Here she meets Anne and learns much about the Acadian culture and history and the Acadians’ relations with the Mi’kmac people. Just when she thinks her summer cannot get much worse, she finds herself transported to Acadia in 1755.
She gets off to a rough start when she meets Luke, the nephew of her grandmother’s friend, and one unfortunate event leads to another. When sixteen-year-old Sarah from Toronto learns that she is to spend the summer with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, she is convinced that it will be the most tedious summer ever.
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