Overview
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
