In The Place Of Last Things
A finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Canada and Caribbean region), and a Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
After his father’s death, Russ Littlebury inherits the task of driving his aunt to her winter home in Arizona. While in Montana, he promises the daughter of a family friend that he will search for her absconded boyfriend, Jack Marks — a man Russ will discover is manipulative, charismatic, and brutal. As Russ travels from the American Southwest to the underworlds of Juarez, Mexico, and back in time from Toronto to Saskatchewan, he confronts his last months with his father and his affair with an open-hearted woman whose convictions entangled…
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October 11, 2005MICHAEL HELM is the bestselling author of After James, a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, which was named a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and NOW magazine; Cities of Refuge, a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, longlisted for the Giller Prize, and named a Globe and Mail Book of the Year and a NOW magazine Top Ten of 2010; In the Place of Last Things, a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book; and The Projectionist, a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award. His writings on fiction, poetry, and photography have appeared in North American newspapers and magazines,…