“First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.” So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of Del Parsons, a young man forced by catastrophic circumstance to reconcile himself to a world rendered unrecognizable.  When fifteen-year-old Del Parson’s parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm rents a stark divide in Del’s life between before and after, a threshold that, once crossed, can never be uncrossed. After his parents’ arrest and imprisonment, Del and Berner, his twin sister, face a blank future of foster care and social services visits. Berner, willful and burning with anger, runs away, orphaning Del completely. In the midst of his abandonment, a family friend intervenes, spiriting Del across the Montana/Saskatchewan border. There, in a dilapidated town floating in the sea of the Canadian prairie, he’s taken in by Arthur Remlinger, an enigmatic, charismatic man whose own past exists on the other side of an un-crossable border.  Undone by the calamity of his parents’ robbery, Del struggles under the vastness of the prairie sky and the stark, unforgiving landscape to realign his sense of himself and the parents he thought he knew, even as he moves on an inexorable collision course with the slow-simmering violence trembling just beneath Arthur Remlinger’s cool reserve.  A true masterwork of haunting and spectacular vision, Canada is an elemental novel of boundaries traversed, innocence lost, and of the mysterious and powerful bonds of family. Rich with emotional clarity, lyrical precision, and an acute sense of the grandeur of living, it is a classic-in-the-making from one of our greatest American writers.