“In a single year, my father left us twice.” This is a multi-generational family novel, but because of the fractured nature of the family and the family history, the narrative is considerably fractured as well. Because as outsiders to the story, we have some of the official history, there’s a kind of dramatic irony involved, but especially because of the way information is restricted and controlled in authoritarian regimes. The novel begins in Canada in 1991 when our narrator is expecting a cousin to arrive […]