Curse Of The Narrows

Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award and a Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearFinalist for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize and the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction AwardNational BestsellerThe events of the horrific Halifax explosion are well documented: on December 6 1917 the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Belgian relief ship Imo collide in the Halifax harbour. Nearly 2000 people are killed; over 9000 more are injured. The story of one of the world’s worst non-natural disasters has been told before but never like this.In a sweeping narrative Curse of the Narrows tells a tale of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation retracing the steps of survivors through the wreckage of a city destroyed told by an author who grew up in Halifax and whose grandmother survived the explosion.