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The Oak Island Affair, A Novel
by Jane Bow
Paperback : 208 pages
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Introduction
Vanessa, a freelance writer who grew up in Spain, is fleeing the pain of an unraveling relationship when she goes to her grandmother's house on Canada's east coast, near Oak Island. Here her discovery of a 400-year old diary written by a failed Spanish Dominican monk rekindles her obsession with an international, multi-million dollar treasure hunt that has drawn investors, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, from Canada, the United States and Europe for more than two hundred years. Vanessa's arrival at a new solution to the mystery, by learning how to see beyond the barriers of reason, plunges her into an underworld from which "there is no turning back, where the rules that run the surface world do not apply..."
Excerpt
PrefaceDuring the last 217 years Canadian-American treasure hunting consortia have sunk several million dollars into the search for gold on Nova Scotia’s Oak Island but still, at the time of writing, the little island continues to guard her treasure secret. ... view entire excerpt...
Discussion Questions
1. How are Vanessa's searches for love and for treasure similar? 2. What does La Vieja tell Vanessa, and why? 3. Why do you think the Oak Island treasure has not yet been found?Book Club Recommendations
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