Novelist Howard Norman writes about his beloved Nova Scotia, where he has spent a good portion of his time for 25 years. Always the storyteller, Norman zeroes in on the tales of fascinating Nova Scotians, including a fellow bird-watcher; an early-20th-century woman who deserts her husband because she has fallen in love with the work of Joseph Conrad; and the poet Elizabeth Bishop who lived in Nova Scotia as a child and wrote memorably about those years in both poetry and prose. Norman also writes about his own relationship with the place and its people, including his experiences there working on a documentary film in 1979.
