<p>Traditions, created, and subverted. Love, nurtured and destroyed. Friendships, marriages, and the wild beauty of Cape Breton Island. And above all, kin, in all its convoluted forms.</p><p>In <em>Kin</em>, bestselling author Lesley Crewe traces the tangled lines of loyalty, tragedy, joy, and love through three generations of families. Beginning with Annie Macdonald, an effervescent seven-year-old living in Glace Bay in the 1930s, and ending with Annie&#39;s great-niece Hilary, an idealistic twenty-year-old in Round Island in 2000, the story is complex and riveting. The cast of characters is vast and varied-some with the island&#39;s deliciously cutting wit, some dour and uptight, some frail, some resilient, and all inextricably bound by their shared histories.</p><p>Brimming with humour and poignancy, <em>Kin</em>&nbsp;is a celebration of the heartbreaking, maddening joy that is family.</p>