The sky is clear blue, the sun reflects off the waves of Lake Huron lapping up against the shore clean water. Apt, perhaps, as he became a Canadian citizen in 2019. A tree that echoes a Group of Seven painting, bent by the winds, clings to a rock off to the right.
The writer from New Hampshire who became famous for his big American novels - “ The World According to Garp,” “Cider House Rules,” “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” among 15 in all - has a desk that sits in front of a window overlooking Georgian Bay. But it’s a good story, with its roots in the truth. The story is that Janet’s grandfather won the island in a poker game, although Janet says it’s a bit more complicated than that, as these things are. We are heading to his “writing shed” which lies near the main cottage that’s been in his wife Janet’s family for years, and where they’ve spent this almost-post-COVID summer.
I follow John Irving’s lead as he picks a path through the rocks and moss of this small Canadian Shield island.
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