{"product_id":"a-forest-for-calum-20676","title":"A Forest for Calum","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Forest for Calum is the coming-of-age novel that follows the teenage years of Roddie—his Catholic schooldays, the development of his artistic talents with the encouragement of a nun, his adolescent capers and budding sexuality, and summers spent at the race track. Roddie lives with his grandfather, Calum Gillies, a Gaelic speaker and a carpenter who settled in Shean when the mines were booming. One of Calum's compatriots composes a poem in Gaelic commemorating the loss of the mines, the strikes endured, religious parochialism, a disappearing language and miners passed as described by Calum and his aging friends. Then, assisted by Roddie and his friends, the men plant the poem—the 18 letters of the Gaelic alphabet corresponding to 18 different trees—to memorialize their disappearing life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43663137931324,"sku":null,"price":16.07,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3677\/6508\/files\/9781771087889.jpg?v=1762961256","url":"https:\/\/nssbb.ednet.ns.ca\/fr\/products\/a-forest-for-calum-20676","provider":"Nova Scotia School Book Bureau","version":"1.0","type":"link"}