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The Descendants.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chursinoff, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hell's Angels--Fiction.
- Hell's Angels.
- Sons of Freedom Doukhobors--Fiction.
- Sons of Freedom Doukhobors.
- Reunions--Fiction.
- Reunions.
- Revenge--Fiction.
- Revenge.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Novels
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gibsons, BC : Nightwood Editions, 2023.
- Summary:
- Chursinoff's remarkable debut is a distinctively structured, sublimely written and moving tale of love, loss, intergenerational trauma and ultimately redemption, set in one of Canada's most enigmatic and misunderstood ethno-religious communities.Seven years after a brutal encounter with the Hells Angels, two ex-lovers, Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin, return to their Doukhobor religious community in the mountains of British Columbia to heal and start new lives. Jonah is a twenty-five-year-old from a disgraced family, and now injured and battling PTSD from his time as a Marine. Ruby, practically Doukhobor royalty, is a rock star with a substance use disorder.Jonah finds his mother, Sharon, still struggling with an eating disorder stemming from her terrorist upbringing in the Doukhobor splinter sect known as the Sons of Freedom. Ruby returns to Sasha, the young son she abandoned, and to her overbearing mother, Virginia, a pious pillar of the community raised to loathe the Sons of Freedom.After a heartfelt reunion between Jonah, Ruby, and Sasha, they learn that a murderous Hells Angel, Clinton Pritchard, is still obsessed with revenge for the damage Jonah caused years earlier. But when Ruby confronts Clinton about their terrible past, Clinton's brother Swanny Pritchard must choose whether to side with his brother or turn against him. Jonah and Ruby unwittingly draw their family into a final confrontation with the Hells Angels that will test longheld, pacifist Doukhobor beliefs.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- I. Phantoms and Fury
- In 1692 a Russian …
- When you love someone …
- By January 1899, Russian …
- Ruby strummed her Stratocaster …
- Jonah Seeger looked away …
- "Are you sure you …
- In 1899 the newly …
- Virginia took her platok …
- Swanny Pritchard's stomach was …
- The stench of death …
- In November of 1902, …
- The cedar wood door …
- Ruby is on her …
- In 1905 tensions rise …
- "Oh, guess who died …
- In 1912 fears of …
- Nick's baritone bellowed from …
- In 1923, following the …
- Blazing halogen lights spread …
- In 1924, George Love, …
- Jonah sat cross-legged on …
- It's 1925 and both …
- At the Big Easy …
- In 1927, following the …
- On overcast days Jonah …
- II. Love and Consequence
- By the end of …
- The vodka was working …
- In 1938 during the …
- "The last time we …
- After four years of …
- With her scarred left …
- At the start of …
- Ruby alternated between watching …
- Virginia had just gotten …
- Jonah was at his …
- Ruby was holding the …
- Jonah sat four seats …
- Ruby pinched the little …
- "You ever…" Ruby's eyebrows …
- A sixteen-year-old Sons of …
- Like everyone around the …
- Sharon positioned her fingers …
- In 1964, Vancouver Sun …
- Ruby was aware of …
- The praise Ruby was …
- "I gotta use the …
- "Let's please wait for …
- Swanny ran up to …
- Jonah didn't know exactly …
- III. Fallout and Fate
- In 1967 as Canada …
- "Virginia, please, my love… …
- Swanny honked his horn, …
- It all happened at …
- "Who would've thought you …
- Jonah struggled to sit …
- Jonah picked up on …
- In 1979 John J. …
- Jonah's knuckles were blistered …
- The looming mountains of …
- Sharon was tickled pink …
- Jonah's heart leapt as …
- Throughout the final year ….
- Jonah clicked off the …
- It was May of …
- Later in the evening, …
- Beams of moonlight and …
- The curtains slowly opened …
- Jonah inhaled a big …
- In August 2001, Mary …
- The Cape Horn Bluffs. …
- Yuri directed Jonah to …
- Ruby stood in the …
- The clouds had dumped …
- Clinton was red-faced, his …
- In July 2006, to …
- "No answer at Yuri's." …
- Ruby rolled a joint …
- The perky, early-morning song …
- Swanny hadn't mustered the …
- A murmur rippled through …
- If Virginia were alone …
- Standing with Ruby at …
- "Closer," Sharon's mother said, …
- Ruby was shocked. Hell …
- As of October 2022, …
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780889714410
- 088971441X
- OCLC:
- 1350688558
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