Despite the differences between their families, fifteen-year-old Bobby befriends twenty-one-year-old Albert Erskine. Despite the unholy actions of so many of the characters, Tom and Patty are viewed with deep disdain by many of the churchgoing residents of Gideon as violators of the Holy Bible, living in sin without an official marriage license and later separating. The man Patty runs off with belongs to the Corkum clan, another group of mountain-dwelling scoundrels who are only slightly less depraved than the Erskines. Early in the book, Tom's common-law wife, Patty, abandons the family which includes their son, Bobby, and their daughter, Ivy. Conversely, the Evans family is led by their straight-arrow upright patriarch, Tom. His son, Billy, often suffers black eyes, split lips, and missing teeth because of his father's violent outbursts. Ray frequently beats his wife, Meg, so badly that she suffers convulsions. The Erskine clan, a family of incestuous, abusive crystal meth producers is led by the cruel Uncle Ray. Set in a tiny mountain community outside Gideon, Nova Scotia, the narrative focuses on two vastly different but equally hardscrabble families. Our Daily Bread was named one of the Best Books of 2011 by the Globe and Mail and The Boston Globe. Davis’s historical novel Our Daily Bread (2011) chronicles two families living on North Mountain and the hardships they face, including physical and sexual abuse, incest, and psychological torture. Inspired by the real-life Goler clan living in an isolated Nova Scotia mountain community, Canadian author Lauren B.
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