Map showing the location of Pluck in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Pluck

A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the Raucous, Terrible, Amazing Journey to Becoming a Novelist · by Donna Morrissey · 2021 · Viking

Cover of Pluck by Donna Morrissey (2021)

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The Beaches, NL

Donna Morrissey was born in The Beaches, a small village on the northwest coast of Newfoundland that had neither roads nor electricity until the 1960s.

The 49th Shelf publisher card for Pluck verbatim anchors the memoir to The Beaches; the Globe and Mail interview corroborates that Pluck is set in The Beaches and explicitly identifies it as a fishing-community memoir.

Donna Morrissey, Pluck (Viking, 2021), publisher card excerpt via 49th Shelfsource

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    The 49th Shelf publisher card for Pluck verbatim anchors the memoir to The Beaches; the Globe and Mail interview corroborates that Pluck is set in The Beaches and explicitly identifies it as a fishing-community memoir.

    Donna Morrissey, Pluck (Viking, 2021), publisher card excerpt via 49th Shelfsource

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  1. 1.Scene at The Beaches, NL: Donna Morrissey, Pluck (Viking, 2021), publisher card excerpt via 49th Shelf