About the book: 2016 / Canadian writer Dani Bechard, winner of the prestigious The Commonwealth Prize for best debut, took eight years to write this book. There are few examples in the history of literature where the first book is so mature, so epic and comprehensive. The history of a family is a plot frame, within which there is an abyss of themes and motives. Bechard reinterpreted and skillfully used the traditions of Kerouac, Faulkner, Marquez to show the reader the most important thing for which books are written, for which we all, by and large, live - how a person searches his way, as he tries to prove - to the whole world and to himself - that he is not a grain of sand in the universe, but a significant part of it.