![]() After her adoptive politically correct parents begin to suspect her biological parents were collaborators with the Americans, they aren't quite so enthusiastic about their decision. McRae was adopted as an infant by a Canadian couple when her Vietnamese refugee parents disappeared in the collapse of South Vietnam. He is pegged as a "messiah type" by Amaris McRae, a young filmmaker on hand to record Lawson's expedition. He believes the break will help him bond with this 16-year-old daughter, Sophie, along for the duration, who is hurt and resentful because her father prefers patching up mangled Rwandans to raising his children. Lewis Book has signed on as doctor of Lawson's expedition, a holiday from his routine of jetting across the world to save victims of war and massacre. ![]() Lawson chews gum to build up what he believes are sexy jaw muscles and scorns anyone who is not, as he is, a "director of his own life." ![]() British Columbian mountaineer Wade Lawson, disgraced in the climbing fraternity because of an expedition in which he failed to save a dying fellow climber, aims at redemption by being the first to conquer Mount Kyatruk, a remote Himalayan peak. The Canadians in this novel who have invaded the region are none too stable to begin with. Steven Heighton's novel Every Lost Country opens with a plangent statement about the oxygen-poor atmosphere of the high-altitude Tibet and Nepal border region: "Air this thin turns anyone into a mystic." Stick around here and you'll enter a "mental twilight," where reason, judgment, conscience and perception spin off in odd directions. Open Book: Philip Marchand on 'Every Lost Country' by Steven Heighton Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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