Book Talk-Newfoundland's Crummey examines resettlement angst

By Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - Author Michael Crummey has often explored the rich cultural landscape of his native Newfoundland in his work, which includes poetry, short stories and novels. In his latest novel, "Sweetland," an eccentric island population that depends on a rapidly disappearing fishing industry for its livelihood accepts government packages to resettle on the mainland. But Moses Sweetland, whose ancestors settled the island generations earlier, refuses, threaten...