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A Seal of Salvage

by Clayton B. Smith · 2024 · Breakwater Books

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Steeped in Newfoundland’s unique folklore and superstitions, A Seal of Salvage is a coming-of-age novel about unrequited love between adolescent boys that slips between history and mythology.Set in 1950s rural outport Newfoundland and blending historical fiction with magic realism, A Seal of Salvage follows orphan Oliver Brown’s coming of age as a queer outsider. source

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  • Set atSalvage↗

    Title and publisher synopsis anchor the novel to the named real outport of Salvage on the Eastport Peninsula in Bonavista Bay.

    Breakwater Books product page (2024); 2024 BMO Winterset longlist — source

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NovelTender-darkContemporaryQueer lifeComing of age

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  1. 1.Blurb source — breakwaterbooks.com/products/a-seal-of-salvage