Christopher Lane

True North Christopher Lane Unabridged edition

The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a malevolent father and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family by taking up with the son of their half-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to adulthood, enlightened by three unforgettably intoxicating women, he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers? rapacious destruction of the wood of Michigan?s Upper Peninsula, as well as with the working people who made their wealth possible. With thirty years of searching for the truth of what his family has done and trying to make amends, David looks close at the root of his father?s evil?and threatens, like Icarus, to destroy himself.