Jeremiah Camp, the protagonist of Thomas King’s dazzling new novel “Sufferance,” leads a simple, quiet life. It is easy to feel, at least initially, that “the simple life. Then there’s the matter of the residential school itself: what exactly does it mean when Camp muses, “I didn’t buy the property. It’s a novel which grows increasingly tense by turns, but with a sly wit and humour throughout. It is a novel of frustration and despair, leavened with an odd, and ultimately redeeming, sense of hope.

Source: thestar May 18, 2021 09:56 UTC