Vandal Love
Item
Title
Vandal Love
Creator
Béchard, Deni Y.
Description
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.
Source
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Date
2012 (2006, Canada edition)
Language
en
Type
Book
Identifier
Coverage
20th century
Québec
Canada
United States
ISBN
9781571310910 1571310916
Number of Pages
339
Number
1 (U.S. edition)
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, Minnesota