By the award-winning author of BrotherFinalist, Governor General's Literary Award for FictionLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardWinner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Literary FictionShortlisted for Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes)Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First BookShortlisted for City of Toronto Book AwardShortlisted for the Amazon. ca/Books In Canada First Novel AwardShortlisted for the ReLit Award, Best NovelShortlisted for One Book, One VancouverFeatured on CBC's "Between the Covers"A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This extraordinary first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia. The son returns after two years to confront his mother but also a young woman who now mysteriously occupies the house. In his desire to atone for his past and live anew, he is compelled to imagine his mother's life before it all slips into darkness-her arrival in Canada during the early sixties, her childhood in Trinidad during World War II, and her lurking secret that each have tried to forget. Luminously poetic, Soucouyant marks the arrival of a major new literary talent in Canada. German-language rights sold to SuhrkampFrench-language rights sold to Editions ZoeAlbanian-language rights sold to Shkupi (Macedonia)Film option sold to Ian Harnarine and Jon Malkiel - Arsenal Pulp Press - catalogue | Soucouyant by David Chariandy, Paperback | Indigo Chapters