Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for FictionWinner of the Sunburst AwardWinner of the Copper Cylinder Adult AwardFinalist for the Trillium Book AwardFinalist for the CBC Bookie AwardsLonglisted for the International Dublin Literary AwardWhen Gabriel Quinn, a brilliant scientist, abandons his laboratory and returns to Smoke River Reserve, where his mother and sister lived, he finds that almost everyone in the community has disappeared. Even the sea turtles are g