Deni Ellis Béchard
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Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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In this, his fourth work of fiction, Béchard takes readers from nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island to modern-day Iraq, tracing the story of a North American family that is at once singular and emblematic, and exploring the cultural repercussions of war and violence.
Reinventing themselves in often unexpected ways, the characters in this tapestry defy simplification. A pair of half-brothers come together and drift apart,
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The award-winning author blends fiction and memoir in this "captivating, careening, thrilling, and magical" novel of neocolonial corruption in the Congo (Foreword Reviews, starred review).
Assigned to write an exposé on the elusive conservationist Richmond Hew, a journalist finds himself on a plane to the Congo, a country he thinks he understands. But then he meets Sola, a woman looking for a white orphan girl who believes herself possessed...
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English
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Growing up in rural British Columbia, Deni Béchard had no idea his family was extraordinary. He took pleasure in typical boyish activities: salmon fishing with his father, a daring man with a penchant for brawling, and reading with his mother, who was interested in health food and the otherworldly.
Assigned to complete a family tree in school, Deni begins to wonder why he doesn't know more about his father's side of the family. His mother is from...
4) Into the Sun
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English
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"A riveting mystery-thriller that also probes deeper into the nature of war and the ways in which it attracts and transforms some people."-David Abrams, author of Fobbit
When a car explodes in a crowded part of Kabul ten years after 9/11, a Japanese-American journalist is shocked to discover that the passengers were acquaintances-three fellow ex-pats who had formed an unlikely love triangle.
Alexandra was a human rights lawyer for imprisoned Afghan...
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English
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My Favorite Crime is a collection of essays that are at once personal and political. The first section, describes the author's tumultuous relationship with his father, exploring his struggle to make sense of his father's criminality as well as his own, and the temptation to lapse back into crime when one has been raised with it. The ways that writing can help us transform our understanding of our family and of ourselves, and give us a new future,...
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English
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Bonobos have captured the public imagination, due not least to their famously active sex lives. Less well known is the fact that these great apes don't kill their own kind, and that they share nearly 99% of our DNA. Their approach to building peaceful coalitions and sharing resources has much to teach us, particularly at a time when our violent ways have pushed them to the brink of extinction.
Animated by a desire to understand bonobos and learn...
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English
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An astonishing novel of epic ambition, Vandal Love, winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers' Prize for best first book in 2007, follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse--a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship--causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. Book One follows the giants' line, exploring Jude Hervé's career as a boxer...
