THE THEORY OF CROWS. A Novel

Already in its fourth printing! When a troubled father and his estranged teenage daughter head out onto the land in search of the family trapline, they find their way back to themselves, and to each other.

Deep in the night, Matthew paces the house, unable to rest. Though his sixteen-year-old daughter, Holly, lies sleeping on the other side of the bedroom door, she is light years away from him. How can he bridge the gap between them when he can't shake the emptiness he feels inside? Holly knows her father is drifting further from her; what she doesn't understand is why. Could it be her fault that he seems intent on throwing everything away, including their relationship?
Following a devastating tragedy, Matthew and Holly head out onto the land in search of a long-lost cabin on the family trapline, miles from the Cree community they once called home. But each of them is searching for something more than a place. Matthew hopes to reconnect with the father he has just lost; Holly goes with him because she knows that, while they are on this trip, the father she is afraid of losing won't be able to walk away from her.
When things go wrong during the journey, they find they have only each other to turn to for support. What happens to father and daughter on the land will test them, and eventually heal them, in ways they never thought possible.

DAVID A. ROBERTSON is the two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, and winner of the Beatrice Mosionier Indigenous Writer of the Year Award and the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. He is the author of the memoir Black Water, which won the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-fiction
and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, the bestselling Misewa trilogy, and the Reckoner series of graphic novels. Robertson is a member of Norway House Cree Nation. He lives in Winnipeg.