The Crane

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The Crane follows the difficult choices confronting someone who cannot go on being lied to and explores how they carry on in the face of hardship.

It’s 1968 and James Anderson’s twin brother Dave has just been killed in the Vietnam war. Knowing his turn is next, James turns his back on his family’s military legacy, evading the draft and travelling to Newfoundland to fulfill a promise his brother made to a fellow soldier. Unwittingly swept into an intergenerational family secret while on assignment for a St. John’s newspaper, James finds something in Newfoundland that could just save his life.

AUTHOR

Monica Kidd

Monica Kidd was raised in the small town of Elnora, AB. Shortly after moving to Newfoundland in 1998, she began working full-time as a reporter for CBC Radio, where she won numerous awards for news stories and documentaries. She is the author of Actualities, a collection of poetry, as well as the novels The Momentum of Red and Beatrice.

After completing a B.Sc. in Zoology at the University of Calgary and a M.Sc. in Biology at Queen’s University, she attended medical school at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is currently a medical resident in St. John’s, Newfoundland.