Sam Bokarie is an exâ€"African warlord who moves to small-town Canada to capitalize on its zealous hospitality. Based in part on a notoriously vicious figure, this debut novel responds to this warlord’s mysterious disappearance by imagining what wo...
Sam Kandy, born to low prospects in a Ceylon village in 1899, dies a hundred years later as the wealthy headman of the same village -- a self-made shipping magnate and the father of sixteen who’s been married three times and widowed twice. Told ...
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAREight months before he became a suicide bomber, Prin went to the zoo with his family.Following a cancer diagnosis, forty-year old Prin vows to become a better man and ...
"A Divine Comedy of our times." -- John Irving, author of The World According to Garp"This book is a miracle.” -- Junot DĂaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoA 2022 ReLit Award Finalist • A Winnipeg Fre...
Little Sanctuary takes place in a Global South falling apart and wracked by war. Teenaged Sabel and her younger siblings are sent for safekeeping to a boarding school on a distant island. After discovering their guardians mean to do them harm, Sabel ...