Vandal Love

Béchard, Deni Y.

Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America.

Milkweed Editions (originally published by Doubleday)

2012 (2006, Canada edition)

en

Book

20th Century

Quebec

Canada

United States

9781571310910

1 (U.S. Edition)

339

Minneapolis, Minnesota