Cassie McCullough

Yeah, it's a little foundling.

That's it.

And yeah, it's not his own.

And he's a completely ruined man who can't possibly care for a baby.

But that's what sort of lifts him up.

Having to look after that baby has to be a better man.

I can relate to that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was, um, well, it was difficult.

I mean, you could see that places were interchangeable for the characters, like they'd have an attachment to place, but they didn't really get the places where they were.

They didn't get what the land was doing and they really had no story for that place except for their own personal

sort of overcoming of hardships.

He does, and there's about three references to former Indigenous peoples, you know, in the area that, you know, were, you know, the earlier characters in the book...

actually helped to eradicate or remove these pesky Mohawks who became uppity and had to be removed and all that sort of thing.

And then one of the more likable characters, the homosexual character, he keeps a bunch of plundered totem poles in his mansion.

And things like that.

So there's kind of like these uncomfortable reminders throughout that you're on Indian land.

But apart from that, there's not much there in terms of place.

I mean, you can see that it's meaningful to him.