Reproduction

A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams' own, Reproduction explores unconventional connections and brilliantly redefines family.

WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.

Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint.

Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. An odd-couple relationship blooms between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications and reprisals for perceived and real offences that have some unexpected results.

Fast-forward, their son Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant son''s fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters Felicia''s life at a typically inopportune moment, the book''s exhilarating final act is set in the motion and Reproduction is revealed.

• | Author: Ian Williams
• | Publisher: John Murray Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 23, 2021
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780349701813
• | ISBN-10: 0349701814