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Island justice or perpetrator as victim

Revisado: 07-03-22

Bringing Silver Donald Cameron’s words to dialectical life, David Ferry liltingly phrases each sentence with Cameron’s wisdom. The arc of his storytelling is logical, moving from the point of a local ne’er-do-well’s chilling, concisely-executed murder, to its easy arrests of local lobster fishermen and their frank confessions, to its ultimate trial and verdicts. Emanating throughout is Cameron’s insightful searchlight among selected Acadian fisherfolk alternately harassed and helped by the Robin-Hoodlike, endearing and maddening murder victim. Readers can know the setting, the people, and the conflicted situation that boiled over to its final and expected confrontation. Cameron’s rendition of one vigilante incident reveals his sensitivity and sorrow for a community. It became wrought up, meaning to reform one of their own yet enforcing his way of life adding to his vengeance on them for his plight: a dog bites his master’s hand, and citizens lay a master’s exacting response. For all, compromise and justice are elusive.

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