Told in Hooper’s signature ethereal style, “this delicate elegy for a dying way of life crescendos into a love song binding family members across the waters” ( Kirkus Reviews). In Our Homesick Songs, Emma Hooper paints a gorgeous portrait of the Connor family, brilliantly weaving together four different stories and two generations of Connors, full of wonder and hope. As the streets of Big Running continue to empty Cora takes matters-and her family’s shared destinies-into her own hands. In 1992 the fish vanish from the waters due to overfishing by huge super-trawlers from foreign lands, causing the cod industry to abruptly collapse. But it’s clear she’s desperate for a bigger life beyond the shores of her small town. OUR HOMESICK SONGS by Emma Hooper is a beautiful, haunting, lyrical tale about a fading town in Newfoundland and a boy who would do anything to save his family. While Finn schemes, his sister Cora spends her days decorating the abandoned houses in Big Running with global flair-the baker’s home becomes Italy the mailman’s, Britain. Callaghan, Finn thinks he may have discovered a way to find the fish, and in turn, save the only home he’s ever known. Aided by his reclusive music instructor Mrs. And as the months go on, plagued by romantic temptations new and old, the emotional distance between the once blissful Aidan and Martha only widens.īetween his accordion lessons and reading up on Big Running’s local flora and fauna, eleven-year-old Finn Connor develops an obsession with solving the mystery of the missing fish. Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper 4.01 avg. But soon the family fears they’ll have to leave Big Running for good. Aidan and Martha Connor now spend alternate months of the year working at an energy site up north to support their children, Cora and Finn. The Connor family is one of the few that is still left in their idyllic fishing village, Big Running after the fish mysteriously disappeared, most families had no choice but to relocate and find work elsewhere. From Emma Hooper, acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine “Pick of the Week,” comes a “haunting fable about the transformative power of hope” ( Booklist, starred review) in a charming and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction.

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