Title: Song of the Plains - Nancy Huston - book
Summary :
Four generations of an immigrant family, the Sterlings, settled on the plains of Alberta, Canada, between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries. One of them, Paddon, knew everything about their existence. But when this novel begins, Paddon has just died. And it is to this beloved grandfather, the son of pioneers in Indian lands, that the narrator, Paula, addresses a lengthy tale in the form of a farewell.