Abstract
These stories are about death, family ties, and pull of traditions transplanted from Scotland to a harsh New World. Reviewing MacLeod in theNew York Times, Louise Erdrich wrote, the young eventually realize though they speak English, old language [Gaelic] is internalized, sound and meaning of it rise to haunt them in same way ancient mythologies and superstitions, spun through generations, exert an ineluctable hold. Joyce Carol Oates gives us a precise image of experience of reading these stories: that sudden feeling of insecurity comes to a traveler in unmapped country; a sense of immediacy, cinematic in its vividness.
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