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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
Through Black Spruce has been on my radar to read as more Canadian content. The White Tiger is a great book. It's worth reading just for the opening chapter which had me in stitches.
@ccowie: you'll also learn that the best way to get a book attention is to shamelessly plug it. It does seem to work in both directions though, so consider yourself warned. 
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Well in that case Through Black Spruce is a brilliant book that should be read by all, not just those in the great white North! Boyden's latest, The Orenda, has been nominated before or I would have enthusiastically nominated it. It's even more brilliant.
I've seen some recent MR discussion about this book club leaning a little toward the "literary" side. Boyden is easy to read, the stories are compelling and there is a lot of depth, but it's not stuffy, cryptic, poetic or preachy. Fear not!