My paternal grandmother was adopted as a young girl in Nova Scotia. My father always tried to find out about her birth parents and her early life. He died a few years ago with many questions unanswered.

Recently, I've made some connections on 23andMe from people that I believe are related to her. I've still got a ways to go to figure our who she really was. She died years before I was born.

As part of my efforts, I've decided to find some novels about the life in Nova Scotia. Malagash caught my attention. I've spent much of my life working with computers, as did my father, so the idea of a someone trying to capture their father's essence and save it in a computer virus fascinated me.

The book was better than I expected. It is a wonderful gem capturing the last days of a man dying of cancer and his interaction with his family.