Passup Point

Passup Point
Coralie Hughes Jensen
Lightning Rider Press
ISBN: 0-9787318-1-6
Fiction, Contemporary
Reviewed by Candace Mahoney

Gabrielle Pye is a young woman struggling to juggle her full time job and the task of raising her two younger brothers, while simultaneously dealing with the pressures of womanhood in the remote Labrador village of Passup Point.
Jonah Devlin is a middle-aged priest, newly reassigned to the abandoned Anglican church. As he attempts to outfit the gutted shell of a church and build a congregation from the ground up, he finds that a pride he didn’t even realize he had is getting in the way.
As if these challenges weren’t enough, secrets from both Gabrielle’s and Jonah’s pasts come back to haunt them both when the Trans Labrador Highway makes their town accessible to the outside world.
Author Coralie Hughes Jensen paints a vivid portrait of stark Labrador life, from the dialect and the poverty pervading the lives of the villagers, to the frustrations of trying to balance ecological concerns with real human lives. Through surprising secrets and quiet triumphs, her compelling story will hold you captive until the final paragraph.