Ann-Marie MacDonald, The Way the Crow Flies

Neta Gordon (Brock University)

Ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

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First circulation or publication 2003

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Germany (Country of Origin)

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Quill & Quire

, Ann-Marie MacDonald discussed her writing process: “I never feel like I’m doing any writing. . . . I feel like I’m putting something together. Accumulating. Then it’s rewriting – the distillation, the salvaging. Things fall away. They don’t get thrown away, because that would be far too easy” (Smith 14). MacDonald’s comments about salvaging and attending to what might be deliberately discarded recall early references in her 2003 novel,

The Way the Crow Flies

, to crows: having spied a girl’s silver charm bracelet left at a murder scene, the crows do the pressing work of witnessing and salvaging, while – throughout the book – human beings postpone such activity, making excuses for…

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Citation: Gordon, Neta. "The Way the Crow Flies". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 July 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14675, accessed 18 December 2024.]

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