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by Canadian writer Ian Williams, published in 2019 by Penguin Random House Canada. The novel centres on the unconventional family life of Army, a

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man from

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, from the time of his conception as the child of a brief affair between a white father and a

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mother who met in a hospital room while tending to their own dying parents, through to his adulthood when his parents are themselves dying. The novel won the 2019

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. It was also shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon.ca First Novel Award,"Tanya Tagaq, Ian Williams among finalists for $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award"
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'', April 26, 2019. and the 2019 Toronto Book Awards.

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