![]() ![]() Thematically, the novel is concerned with finding and losing identity. Tell, a bestseller, was shortlisted for the 2014 Giller Prize in Canada & published in the U.S. ![]() Frances Itani, C.M., writer of novels, short stories, poetry, essays, reviews and children's books, has written 18 books and is a recipient of the new 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. Her new novel, The Company We Keep, published by HarperCollins in August 2020 - and sold internationally - is about six strangers who meet in the backroom of Cassie's Cafe and find common purpose as they discuss loss and grief, truth and new beginnings. Itani's previous novel, That's My Baby, (2017) is set during WWII's Jazz Age and moves forward to 1998. Characters include Hanora (previously in Tell) who is adopted, and her cousin who has the beginnings of Dementia. ![]()
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