Publish Date |
September 23, 2025 |
Category |
Fiction / Own Voices Fiction / Friendship |
Price |
$31.99 |
ISBN: 9781668093962
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Scribner Canada
Published: September 23, 2025
“The Sapling is an incredibly delicate rendering of an equally delicate relationship – one I have never seen depicted in literature before. It is presented as a love we don’t have a name for, which this novel works so beautifully to name and not name.”
— SHEILA HETI, author of Pure Colour, winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award“A gorgeous, subtle novel of an unconventional friendship developed out of a strange kinship, a love for art, and a desire to hold on to the beauty of the world. In clear, elegant prose, Bendavid has written a moving tribute to the mystery of our relationships and the ways others find us and form us.”
— LIZ HARMER, author of Strange Loops and The Amateurs, a finalist for the Amazon First Novel Award“This book hypnotically moves between the rush and the agony of a life-altering relationship, one that exists outside those we have words for. Bendavid’s writing has grace and power, shot through with glimmers as if caught by the sun. Edging toward brave new territory, The Sapling is mesmerizing. It will hold you in its spell.”
— HEIDI SOPINKA, author of Utopia and The Dictionary of Animal Languages, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize