TY - BOOK AU - Proulx,Annie TI - Barkskins: a novel SN - 9780743288781 AV - PS3566.R697 B37 2016 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2016/// KW - Families KW - Fiction KW - Canada KW - New France KW - Epic fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Includes family trees N2 - In New France in the late 18th century, Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. This novel tells stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as the descendants of his friends and foes, as they travel back to Europe, to China, to New England, always in quest of a livelihood or fleeing stunningly brutal conditions--war, pestilence, Indian attacks, the revenge of rivals ER -