In the opening pages of her latest novel, Michelle Porter introduces readers to one of the main characters, a glacier. “A glacier’s a restless thing,” warns Doug, the uncle of Robbie, a young Métis man on a quest to find his father, who has disappeared on the ice. “Time moves differently when you’re out on a glacier,” the mountaineer explains to his…
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At the end of The Tempest, Prospero drowns his books and buries his staff after orchestrating a storm to bring his enemies together on an island. He renounces his magic. Like Shakespeare’s metafictional farewell to the power of art, the final entry in Marie-Claire Blais’s Soifs cycle, the last book she completed before her death in…