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Our Lady of Mercy

André Alexis

‘I was engaged in a battle of politeness, those kindly – but ferocious – skirmishes that are so common in our country.’

André Alexis

André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His novel Days by Moonlight won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and Fifteen Dogs won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, CBC Canada Reads and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His other books include Asylum, Pastoral, The Hidden Keys, and The Night Piece: Collected Stories. He is the recipient of a Windham Campbell Prize. His most recent novel is Ring

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