Tricky questions of truth, ownership and family history in Robert Alan Jamieson's MacCloud Falls
GILBERT Johnson, an Edinburgh man, is in British Columbia, or “New Caledonia” as he prefers to call it. He is a history-loving bookseller researching the story of his father and of his possible grandfather, James Lyle, who once lived in the region, but learns instead that what we think we own isn’t “ours” at all; that one man’s “story” is actually another woman’s “(his)tory”; and that origins aren’t necessarily as obscure as postmodernism would have us believe.