The shipping news
Award winning fiction, Family stories, General fiction, Movie and television tie-ins
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
The story centers around Quoyle, a lowly newspaper reporter. When his wife, Petal Bear, runs off with another man and gets killed, Quoyle's aunt convinces the distraught man to move with his two daughters to an abandoned family home in… Newfoundland. Quoyle goes to work for a sleazy paper covering the shipping news and learns to fit right in. Strong language. 1994 Pulitzer Prize winner. 1994.