It's a grey day on the St. John River. Fitting ambiance for this book about Black brothers convicted and hanged for killing a taxi driver in Fredericton, NB in 1949. Clarke, an acclaimed Cdn poet, uses his poetic license to re-imagine this historical event. He fleshes out the sad history of these two men and the poverty, racism, violence of their world, writng with "sympathy but not sentimentality." It is a bleak but beautifully written book. ?