Nikolski: A Novel

Spring 1989. Three young people leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own songs of migration. Each ends up in Montreal each on a voyage of self-discovery dealing with the mishaps of heartbreak and the twisted branches of their shared family tree. . Filled with humor charm and good storytelling this novel shows the surprising links between cartography garbage-obsessed archeologists pirates past and present a mysterious book with no cover and a broken compass whose needle obstinately points to the Aleutian village of Nikolski (a minuscule village inhabited by thirty-six people five thousand sheep and an indeterminate number of dogs).