A novel of grotesque realism following Rabelais.Unique narration seen through the eyes (and told in the voices) of some 70 animals, birds, and insects who observe the protagonist as he travels the continent.The novel reads like a road movie, a thriller, as the protagonist, Waahch Debch, travels from Montreal across the U.S. border (stopping at Indian reservations in Quebec and Ontario along the way), through the Mid-West to New Mexico. He is on the trail of his wife's murderer, a Mohawk named Welson Wolf Rooney. The murder was violent beyond words. The violence of her death (and that of another woman murdered by the same man on the Kahnawake reservation) triggers a fault line in Waahch's memory and the ensuing events force him to pursue "the excavation of his memory." This excavation leads to a tale of almost biblical vengeance rooted in historical "tribal" traditions of honor. (Reminiscent of Joseph Boyden's The Orenda but set in a very different time and place.) The protagonist Wahhch grew up in Lebanon during the civil war of the 1980s, where a brutal childhood episode forever changed his life.Topicality: the painful legacy of the politics of the Middle East and the "Palestinian question."

"This haunting work may be the best piece of theater this country has produced this millennium."--"The Globe and Mail"

In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer's ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant father with a series of monologues to settle old scores and misunderstandings between them.In an astonishing and eerie reversal of roles, in Act 2 it is Alex who visits his son Claude in the same Alzheimer's ward and it is Alex's turn to rant and rail at what he perceives to be his mute son's contempt for his own working class life.With a cruel and disconsolate irony, we come to see that his father's lifelong attempt to mock and censure Claude's work as consisting of nothing but mediocre, misrepresentative lies, has been the very driving force behind Claude's compulsion to continue to reveal the  truth" of human relationships as he so desperately wants his father to understand it.

When Pierre and Simone planned a vacation to the Irish coast, they were hoping to revive their failing marriage. What they weren't expecting was to stumble upon the body of Mary, a drowned woman, during a walk along the beach. As the couple begin to piece together Mary's history, her presence integrates itself into their lives.