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With his first book, the Commonwealth Prize-winning Vandal Love, Deni Ellis Bchard reinvented the generational novel with innovative brilliance (Robert Olen Butler). In his second novel, Into the Sun, he offered a ferociously intelligent and intensely gripping portrait of the expatriate community in Kabul (Phil Klay). Most recently, Foreword Reviews described his third novel, White, as captivating, careening, thrilling, and magical. In this, his fourth work of fiction, Bchard 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.