Andre Alexis Books in Order

Eight stories explore ordinary lives concealing anxiety, violence, and disturbing secrets. Moving between Ottawa, Toronto, and southern France, their dreamlike premises blur familiar places with surreal possibilities, examining the uneasy boundary between everyday reality and the subconscious.

Thomas MacMillan reconstructs his early life in southern Ontario, recalling his Trinidadian grandmother and the mother who reclaimed him. Living in the house of a mysterious, gentle man raises questions about family, memory, and his origins.

Ingrid longs to belong to a family that seems unable to accept her. A visit to relatives in Hungary brings an unusual inheritance and a wolf whose fiercely protective affection reveals a disturbing side.

In Ottawa during the Mulroney years, eccentric residents pursue political influence, love, and refuge. Their interconnected lives unfold around an ambitious plan for an ideal prison, exposing tensions between imagined perfection and human needs.

Toronto reviewer Alexander Baddeley becomes obsessed with the elusive poet Avery Andrews and sets out to find him. His search for creative inspiration becomes an unsettling encounter that raises questions about artistic ambition, imagination, and the people behind books.

Father Christopher Pennant takes charge of his first parish in the quiet town of Barrow. A troubled engagement and bewildering miracles challenge his assumptions about country life and shake the faith he has come to serve.

A wager between Apollo and Hermes gives fifteen dogs in a Toronto veterinary clinic human intelligence and language. Freed into a changed world, the pack divides over its new consciousness, confronting loyalty, happiness, and mortality.

Toronto thief Tancred Palmieri meets wealthy Willow Azarian, who believes her late father concealed an additional inheritance. She hires him to steal her siblings' unusual keepsakes and decipher the puzzle she thinks they collectively contain.

Grieving botanist Alfred Homer accompanies Professor Morgan Bruno through southern Ontario in search of an elusive poet. Encounters with strange communities turn their road trip into an increasingly uncertain exploration of perception, belonging, and reality.

Gwen falls in love with Tancred and receives a family ring that can change three things about her beloved. Its apparent gift forces her to consider what love requires and whether improving someone threatens their relationship.

These stories move between nineteenth-century Trinidad and contemporary Canada, where ordinary lives encounter uncanny events. Reincarnation, mysterious possessions, family portraits, and childhood secrets open questions about memory, identity, and the ways people make sense of their past.