![]() ![]() He'd even left a guest list that included one mysterious name: Ari. Which changes everything.Īt the reading of the will, it turns out that instead of a funeral, Pierre wanted a "roast" at a bar no one knew he frequented-The Only Café in Toronto's east end. But five years later, a single bone and a distinctive gold chain are recovered, and Pierre is at last declared dead. When, in the midst of a corporate scandal, he went missing after his boat exploded, his teenaged son Cyril didn't know how to mourn him. And he was especially silent about what had happened to him in Lebanon, the country he fled during civil war to come to Canada as a refugee. Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father, he didn't let anyone really know him. Scotiabank Giller prize–winner Linden MacIntyre delivers a page-turning, thought-provoking novel about an enigmatic man haunted by a troubled past in his native Lebanon and the Canadian-born son who tries to solve the mystery of his father's life. ![]()
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