{"product_id":"9780679312529","title":"Into the Blue","description":"By: Andrea Curtis     \u003chr\u003eAward-winning journalist Andrea Curtis explores the shadows cast over her family  by a century-old shipwreck and uncovers the tragedy, disaster and promise of early  life on the Great Lakes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Every family has a story, passed down through generations.  For Andrea Curtis that story is the wreck of the SS J.H. Jones. In 1906, the late-November  swells of Georgian Bay erupt into a blinding storm, sinking the Jones and claiming  the lives of all on board. Left in the wake is Captain Jim Crawford’s one-year-old  daughter, Eleanor, who faces a daunting future of poverty and isolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But Eleanor  emerges from her childhood determined to leave behind the restrictions of her small  town. She plunges into the excitement of Jazz-era California and 1930s Montreal,  struggling to become a poet and a writer. Almost a century later, Andrea knows her  grandmother Eleanor only as a sophisticated, respected Montreal matriarch. Until,  while researching Jim Crawford’s role in the Jones tragedy, she discovers that Eleanor  had a hidden past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Using family stories, archival research and fictionalized re-enactments,  Andrea Curtis narrates her family’s history, and that of the place they once called  home. Into the Blue shimmers with Curtis’s rich and reflective voice, recreating  a little-known but formative time when Canadians persevered through unthinkable loss,  violence and disaster, and brings to life a grand era of Great Lakes history. This  is a worthy peer to such beloved memoirs as David Macfarlane’s \u003ci\u003eThe Danger Tree\u003c\/i\u003e and  Roy MacGregor’s \u003ci\u003eA Life in the Bush\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Vintage Canada","offers":[{"title":"CA - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46530455535843,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780679312529","price":144.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780679312529.jpg?v=1749532980","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/9780679312529","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}