Never without her by Jocelyne Saucier Review

Albert Cardinal is a nerd. He is obsessed with minerals and stones and the treasures that they promised him. 1944 he discovered in Norcoville (a fictitious location in western Canada) a huge zinc deposits. Determined to make big money, he buys a house for his family. It includes four apartments, which he combined into one by breaking out the partitions. For it is not an everyday father-mother-child small group house. In the four residential and four bathrooms, a lively crowd of children, which includes twenty-one heads after their completion by Matz, the youngest, in the sixties romps.

In the everyday lives of children prevails pure anarchy. All carry a distinctive nickname – Zorro, Nefertiti, Fakir, Mahatma, Tootsie … – while their actual names are relatively meaningless and found only occasionally use. Everything belongs to all – “nothing, absolutely nothing, not even a place to sleep” was recognized as a personal possession, everything had ever fought, defended, be conquered. Man beats are the best seats on the worn sofas to Leitwolfpositionen or just to pass the time, but the love for one another is doing all this not diminish.

so that every single child is gaining great confidence and shares the collective sense of superiority that manifests itself in dealing with the settlers children the same area. nothing but contempt for the foolish, backwoods, servile “eggs” in which they amuse himself

In the chaos of this group of children the mother has ground down their own personality. From morning to night she toils away, “enslaved by the time”, “driven by urgencies”, constantly moving between their work in four kitchens and elsewhere in the house.

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She mumbles incessantly to himself “as an enlightened”, lost in their recipes, plans, thoughts, while sometimes confused their children and forget what she had just heard or said yourself. Peace gives her only once every nine months, the short period of a further confinement, for a while she retreats to her bedroom like other people for a nap. Support it receives from Joan of Arc, her eldest daughter, which decreases their time most educational and caring tasks. She proudly mentions her over again: “I have lost a child.” If you ever happen, it would have been a nightmare from hell her.

This poignant novel of an extraordinary family does not allow the reader to the striking end let go. Are there first the unbelievable scenes of absurd everyday this anthill of character heads that make us laugh, cry and let wonder so fascinated us when we have become accustomed to the family Cardinal reasonably, the further development of the fateful act that intrinsically the conspired translucent Community scattered with a blow to the winds. Decades later, a meeting brings harrowing secrets to light.

Albert Cardinal leaves his archaeological site of a mining company to exploit and receives shares. Unfortunately, the manager gamble in the initial hype of the world market their capital carefully. After the zinc prices have dropped through the floor, includes the mine in 1957. Most of the families are now leaving Norco, some at a profit, but others remain with heavy losses, the Cardinals, now again the “Kings” of abandoned terrains. The man who had found the treasure, people pitied as poor spinner, because he has proved to be unable to make anything out of his lucky find, and “poor a church mouse like” remained. In fact, Albert Cardinal stands with his entire unsold and unsaleable shares financially from scratch. By the mining company he feels ripped off. Ironically, he had never offered a well-paid job. But ultimately it does not scratch it all, because now he has his mine back on its own, and he is sure that he will eventually come up against a valuable gold mine. The village falls, nature conquered him back. In the abandoned houses, the children like the Vandals rage from destroying and pillaging.

‘seventh birthday with Matz has everything to an abrupt end. This is traditionally the day for a father’s rite of passage. The whole family (except the mother, who is no time for such idleness has) looks on when the birthday child can light a stick of dynamite for the first time. The father left instructions that other bawl “Birthday good luck.” But it is the opposite of a “happy birthday”. On the same day, the elders scatter to the winds and take a secret with.

To mark the occasion Cardinal Albert gets thirty years later all his children together. Such a family reunion had been hoped wistfully of all – and yet a difficult time for all the work-up

One by one can tell the author of the now grown-up children, who want to remember together the events of six.. Each adds to the already known added new details, which revised some individual perspective. We learn how the traumatic event has affected the life of the main players quite different, as everyone tried to deal them with his conscience pangs. The now aged parents, who had earlier given up some puzzles, back into the spotlight, “Father, a phantom of his true self, who hid his personality in front of us”; Mother rushed, and headless, always in terror that to have forgotten one or the other child, she knows all the “better than we do. She has knitted us from the wool of her soul, she knows us on the right and on the left, she finds every lost scam again. “<

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