Scenes set here
- The Wreckage
Michael Crummey
“On Little Fogo Island in 1940, itinerant Catholic projectionist Wish Furey screens films and meets sixteen-year-old Mercedes (Sadie) Parsons in the audience — the encounter that…”
Books here
- settingThe Wreckage
Michael Crummey
Crummey's 2005 novel opens in a Protestant fishing community on Little Fogo Island in 1940. Multiple sources (Q&Q review, publisher jacket copy at McNally Robinson and PRH Canada) independently identify Little Fogo Island as the precise setting of the Newfoundland storyline.