The Imbecile Donald Hucksworth

By: Donald Carter

Narrated by: Joseph Witthohn

A novel loosely based around an incestuous Kings County mountain clan known as the Goler’s the story is told through the eyes of three main characters. Donald Hucksworth is the mentally ill bumbling grandson who loves exploring the sewer; Elizabeth Hucksworth is his Grandmother, the elderly woman with a fearsome and secretive reputation with her own dark past; While Ernie Goler is the cruel and sadistic sex offender who’s recently been released after a long stretch spent in a New Brunswick penitentiary.

As Elizabeth try's to hide her own dark past she continues to run her and her deceased husbands thriving apple growing operation above the Goler mountain community in South Mountain Nova Scotia. Elizabeth, a fearless and formidable presence, remains committed to helping the Goler women of South Mountain fight against their abusers.

Donald Hucksworth gets caught up in his own struggle at understanding reality spending his time between the family homestead and traveling through Nova Scotia's long connection of old sewers in his dory rowboat. He finds there in the dark underworld that he must struggle with his own version of reality in order to make a plan to try and help his Goler friends. Despite his mental illness he must try to ward off evil and help the people he loves while life conspires to confuse his reality. If there is hope or ultimately a good overarching these characters lives then they struggle to understand it. A beautiful story worth discovering.

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