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Morgan's third novel, "Cloud of Bone" (Knopf Canada, 2007), explores humanity's capacity for genocidal violence. Moving from World War II, St. John's to 1998 Rwanda and
Yugoslavia, and then to a pre-European Newfoundland, "Cloud of Bone" examines the murder of the Beothuks through the eyes of a World
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Literary magazines that have published Morgan's short stories include "Fiddlehead", "The
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155:, was printed as a limited edition art book by Running the Goat Books and Broadsides and illustrated with woodblock engravings and lithographs by her daughter Jennifer Morgan. This novella follows the life of two Newfoundland Christian missionaries in pre World War II China. Her children's book,
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159:, illustrated by Brita Granstrom, was published by the same press in 2018. Morgan has described this book as, "the story of free-range children in prewar St. John's." "Seasons Before the War" was one of four books shortlisted for the INDY Nonfiction Award in 2021.
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Theatre, based in Cupids, NL, mounted Morgan's play "Area of Uncertainty" under the direction of Sarah Phillips. This play describes the effect of Amelia Earhart's eleven-day stop-over on Trepassey, Newfoundland in 1928.
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British anthropologist. "Cloud of Bone" won the 2008 Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award in Fiction and was shortlisted for the Thomas Head Raddall Award. The novel has been republished by Penguin Books.
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