In The End of Music, Jamie Fitzpatrick’s two mesmerizing, interwoven narratives circle the lives of Joyce, a modern young woman navigating the fraught social mores of a small town in its post-war heyday, and her son, Carter, more than fifty years later, whose days as an aspiring rock star are over. As Joyce’s memories of the past begin to escape her, her son’s past returns to haunt him. source
Places
- Set atGander International Airport↗
Author interviews in The Newfoundland Quarterly and CBC News confirm Gander as the central setting; Quill & Quire review explicitly anchors a key scene at the 1954 crash site outside Gander.
Jamie Fitzpatrick interview in The Newfoundland Quarterly; CBC News (Dec. 9, 2018); Quill & Quire review — source
