![]() ![]() The son returns after two years to confront his mother but also a young woman who now mysteriously occupies the house. This extraordinary first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award, Best NovelĪ soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. Shortlisted for City of Toronto Book Award Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Shortlisted for Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Literary Fiction Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction ![]()
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