Snow-blind

About the book

Kitchener Tearl is listening casually to the radio when a message addressed to a Canadian mounted policeman catches his attention. The recipient's surname suggests his missing brother, while the message itself awakens hope concerning their father, a police inspector who vanished years earlier. Leaving the security of New York, Kitchener follows these uncertain connections into a northern world already powerful in his family imagination. Treynor joins a search for lost relatives to a wilderness adventure involving suspicious strangers, concealed identities, and dangerous travel. The modern broadcast that starts the journey contrasts with the maps, trails, and personal encounters needed to continue it. Kitchener's eagerness to believe that the past can be recovered must contend with evidence that remains fragmentary and difficult to trust.

• Family memory
• Identity and disappearance
• Wilderness survival

Why read it

The opening radio broadcast makes distant family history suddenly immediate, giving the northern journey a strong personal motive.

English Grosset & Dunlap text marked second printing, April 1929