What Comes Echoing Back
by Leo McKay Jr.
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Pub Date 20 May 2023 | Archive Date 27 Mar 2023
Nimbus Publishing | Vagrant Press
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Description
A poignant novel imbued with music from the Giller Prize — shortlisted author of Like This and Twenty-Six that follows two social outcasts as they navigate through their traumatic pasts.
The worst moment of Sam's life was captured on video and shared across the Internet for all to gawk at. This is something she has in common with Robot, who just wants to move past the mistakes he's made, if only his small town will let him. When the two meet in a high school music class, they start to find their way to each other. Music might offer a way not only forward, but forward together, if Sam and Robot can overcome the echoes of the moments that made them infamous.
The past reverberates in ways we don't expect, in this new novel by Giller Prize — shortlisted author Leo McKay, Jr. From family secrets and old relationships that resurface, to the tape loops that endlessly replay private moments of trauma and despair, What Comes Echoing Back travels back and forth in time to get to what's true, with humour, humanity, and the healing power of music.
Advance Praise
Praise for previous novel, Twenty-Six:
“Twenty-Six reads more persuasively than any non-fiction account yet produced of [the Westray mining] disaster.... Readers who pick up [Twenty-Six] will be rewarded with unusually vivid insights into the depth and texture of late-20th century working-class life.” – The National Post
“Swift, honest, unsentimental storytelling and characters, both real and imagined, vivid enough to rise above their hard, often tragic lives. [Twenty-Six] hits you like the kick of a miner’s drill.” – Maclean’s
“A compelling account of lives shattered and lives redeemed by disaster.… An unforgettable story of one family’s anguish and survival.”
– The Halifax Chronicle-Herald
“A cleanly crafted, richly evocative portrait of a community of families.… Leo McKay Jr. has created an entire world so skilfully that it’s jarring when the book ends, when one is reminded that these are merely characters, no matter how human they seem.”
– The Vancouver Sun
“At its core… an earnest exploration of the painful varieties of human loss.”
– Quill & Quire
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781774711668 |
| PRICE | CA$23.95 (CAD) |
| PAGES | 304 |
