David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children

Here's a link to a couple of maps I posted on the blog earlier this spring when I taught this book for the first time. In the first few pages, the narrator describes an area called "The Stumps": "The Stumps was a tract of land in northeastern New Brunswick, along the great Miramichi River, which flowed out of the heavy forests into the Northumberland Strait, north of the western tip of Prince Edward Island" (3 - Cdn edition).

You can find a brief profile of David Adams Richards at his own site here, but you'll get the most from this really good interview with him.