Status Updates From Blackstrap Hawco

Gripping climax, and I’m on the home stretch. Still room to make this a tragedy or a romance. What a story!

Feel like I’ve been blindsided by the ravings of Blackstrap, and against my will, I’ve begun to comprehend them. He’s a hater!

Blackstrap is growing up, still illiterate, discovers romance, gets maimed by frostbite on surviving the Ocean Ranger disaster, moves to T.O. Metaphysics ensues.

More suffering! Am I becoming enured to the misery endured by these people? Apocalyptic visions abound. I. Must. Finish.

It’s even more brutal than I previously reported.
Some surprising falsehoods in the popular culture of the 1970s.
Run-on sentences with phrases separated by periods. Sentences and paragraphs broken up into fragments with periods. Just awful to read. I tried reading it aloud, and that was brutal too.

It’s starting to make more sense, but it’s still a delirium of impressions. I’m afraid to recommend it, because it may drive you mad, and the only antidote is to move to a Newfoundland outport for the rest of your life, and find out for yourself what it all means.

Boom! Blown away by the first few chapters of this amazing Newfoundland family history. Just passed a quick scene of sealers dying on the ice (i read Cassie Boon’s tale of this many years ago).
Brutal lives of brutal people. What an awful place - Bareneed, Conception Bay. Simply awful, and gripping!