The Descendants Chursinoff Robert
Religious fanaticism, organized crime and a little bit of rock 'n' roll come together in this singular debut novel about intergenerational trauma and confronting the past.Seven years after a brutal…
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Religious fanaticism, organized crime and a little bit of rock 'n' roll come together in this singular debut novel about intergenerational trauma and confronting the past.Seven years after a brutal encounter with the Hells Angels, two ex-lovers, Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin, return to their Doukhobor religious community in the mountains of British Columbia to heal and start new lives. Jonah is a twenty-five-year-old from a disgraced family, and now injured and battling PTSD from his time as a Marine. Ruby, practically Doukhobor royalty, is a rock star with a substance use disorder.Jonah finds his mother, Sharon, still struggling with an eating disorder stemming from her terrorist upbringing in the Doukhobor splinter sect known as the Sons of Freedom. Ruby returns to Sasha, the young son she abandoned, and to her overbearing mother, Virginia, a pious pillar of