The Relatives
A Novel
From the renowned author of Sweetness in the Belly, The Beauty of Humanity Movement and This Is Happy, comes a bold, urgent and richly imagined novel about what it means to be a family in our modern world.
Lila is on a long, painful journey toward motherhood. Tess and Emily are reeling after their ugly separation and fighting over ownership of the embryos that were supposed to grow their family together. And thousands of miles away, the unknown man who served as anonymous donor to them all is being held in captivity in Somalia. While his life remains in precarious balance, his genetic material is a source of both creation and conflict.
What does it mean to be a family in our…
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January 31, 2023
CAMILLA GIBB was born in London, England, and grew up in Toronto. She is the author of four internationally acclaimed novels—Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life, Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement—as well as the bestselling memoir This is Happy. Camilla has been the recipient of the Trillium Book Award, the City of Toronto Book Award and the CBC Canadian Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She has a Ph.D. from Oxford University and is an adjunct faculty member of the graduate creative writing programs at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph.
Visit her at www.camillagibb.com
The Relatives
Camilla Gibb
Sweetness in the Belly
Camilla Gibb; Read by Kate Redding
Mouthing the Words
Camilla Gibb
This Is Happy
Camilla Gibb
The Beauty of Humanity Movement
Camilla Gibb
The Journey Prize Stories 21
Selected by Camilla Gibb, Lee Henderson, and Rebecca Rosenblum
Sweetness in the Belly
Camilla Gibb