Publish Date |
April 16, 2024 |
Category |
Fiction / Thrillers / Crime Fiction / Literary |
Price |
$24.95 |
ISBN: 9780771003578
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: April 16, 2024
Shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • Finalist for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize • A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year • One of CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024
"Prairie Edge is both a propulsive crime narrative built around successive, compounding blunders and a work of literary art that tells us about what it means to live in a world where action and rhetoric around decolonization fail to align....Kerr extracts maximum amounts of comedy and pathos from the novel’s premise while populating this fictional world with resonant characters whose difficult experiences with group homes, social services, and activist circles are softened by enduring family bonds and friendships. Kerr entertains us with a contemporary caper while inviting readers to consider a future that has reckoned with the past.”
—Giller Prize 2024 jury citation
“A powerful…tale of friendship and hope in the face of intergenerational trauma.”
—Kirkus Reviews