{"id":2010,"date":"2025-06-21T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2010\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T09:49:17","slug":"top-5-books-set-in-rural-canada-chosen-by-author-tristan-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 books set in rural Canada, chosen by author Tristan Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan Hughes is an award-winning novelist and short story writer born in Atikokan in rural Ontario and brought up on the Welsh island of Ynys Mon. Here are his picks of fiction set in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9780816629978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Lonely Land<\/a> by Sigurd Olson<\/p>\n<p>An account of a canoe journey by the great <a href=\"https:\/\/bigissue.com\/tag\/environment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">environmentalist<\/a> along one of the old voyageur routes \u2013 the Churchill River. Rich in natural and human history, it\u2019s a classic adventure tale. You wish you\u2019d been along for the trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9781914198502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country<\/a> by Louise Erdrich<\/p>\n<p>Erdrich is one of the finest novelists working today, but here \u2013 in this account of a journey with her young daughter across Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake \u2013 she offers a beautifully crafted series of reflections on family history, landscape and Ojibwe traditions and language.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9780099429326\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Crow Lake<\/a> by Mary Lawson<\/p>\n<p>An elegantly understated coming-of-age novel about four orphans growing up in a remote farming community in Ontario, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigissue.com\/news\/activism\/bank-of-england-governor-mark-carney-backs-the-big-issue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>. Poised and subtly written, the emotional undercurrents of loss and regret come powerfully to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese<\/p>\n<p>A spare, beautiful, compassionate novel, following a journey through memory by Saul Indian Horse, a northern Ojibwe survivor of the residential school system. Charting his life from a talented ice hockey player to a hospice in the city, it conjures the landscapes of northern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart<\/p>\n<p>An intricate and finely crafted tale exploring memory, art and landscape, centred around a relationship between an artist and his model in Silver Islet on the northern shores of Lake Superior.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tristan Hughes is an award-winning novelist and short story writer born in Atikokan in rural Ontario and brought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,746,2815,2816,2817,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-2010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-from-the-magazine","12":"tag-indigenous","13":"tag-top-5-books","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114720733138919476","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}