The Village of My Heart's Mistake

In "The Village of My Heart's Mistake -- An Acadian Life", Denise Cormier sets out the facts of her own life - the tranquility of a country childhood she strove to sustain far into adulthood, the emergence of the "curse of the Deveaus" from the recesses of her family, the coming of modernity to a village that had relied, as had she, on its fishermen - to tell a story that is elemental, romantic, bitter, unsentimental, satisfying and true.