Description: From the seeds of an impoverished boilermaker's adoration for a rich doctor's daughter grows a sweeping story of a family whose personal passions are woven into the tapestry of world history.
Brief description: André Narbonne's is a scholar, writer, and the publisher of Conspiracy Press, based in Windsor, Ontario. His short fiction has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories, won the FreeFall Literary Contest, the David Adams Richards Prize, and the Atlantic Writing Contest. A first collection, Twelve Miles to Midnight, was shortlisted for the 2017 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His first novel, Lucien & Olivia, was longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize.