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<p><b>Shortlisted, Giller Prize</b></p><p><b>“I said, ‘the pair of us look like some scratch ‘n win tickets,’ and Earn said, ‘More like scratch ‘n lose.’” </b></p><p>Knickle is a young Islander with no friends, direction, or purpose in his life. When he drives to northern New Brunswick to pick up an acquaintance’s brother from a mental health hospital, the pair make a sudden decision to travel further west to try to find a life amidst the chaos of Upper Canada. In the big city of Tah-ron-ah for the first time, Knickle discovers love, hope, and profound loss. </p><p>A hilarious, sensitive, and heady working-class odyssey rife with metaphorical richness and references to literature, film, and 90s music, <i>Your Breath in Charcoal</i> peers into the mind of its irrepressible and relentlessly quotable East Coast everyman. A follow-up to <i>Some Hellish</i>, Herring’s breathtaking Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize-winning debut novel, <i>Your Breath in Charcoal</i> marks yet another galvanizing entry into the East Coast literary canon. </p>
