Deni Ellis Béchard

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...