Canada - Softcover

A masterwork by one of the finest writers of our time

“First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.”

When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons’ parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into a strictly defined sense of before and after.

His parents’ arrest and imprisonment mean an uncertain future for Dell and his twin sister, Berner. When a resentful Berner flees their home in Montana, abandoning Dell, a family friend intervenes, spiriting the boy across the Canadian border. There, afloat on the Saskatchewan prairie, Dell is taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic and charismatic American whose cool reserve masks a dark and violent nature.

Canada is a profound novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost and reconciled, and the mysterious and consoling bonds of family.

Richard Ford is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Bascombe novels and the New York Times bestselling Canada and Let Me Be Frank with You. He is the author of the renowned short story collections Rock Springs and A Multitude of Sins. Ford is the 2016 recipient of the Asturias Award for Literature in Spain, and he lives in East Boothbay, Maine with his wife, Kristina Ford.