A novel · out now
Nine-year-old Simon. Thirteen-year-old Anna. The distance between them feels ordinary, and isn't. A debut novel about learning to love your sibling and the everyday work of finding, and holding on to each other.
"Maybe we were just calling out to each other and couldn’t tell. Maybe we were sent here like you said. Parts of us. From two different places, into the same family, to learn to love each other across the kind of difference that we are." from The Holding
The story
Simon is nine — an outgoing creature of the moment, heart on his sleeve, sometimes too loud, sometimes too much. Anna is thirteen — guarded, watchful, sharper than she lets people see, and quietly drowning in the social blood-sport of grade eight.
Unseen at the edges of the frame, something outside themselves is trying to bring them together. What they manage — or fail to manage — between themselves will register far past the small horizon of a Canadian childhood.
About the book
Out now
In paperback, hardcover, and ebook. Read it however you like.