This novel is set in a small town in Canada, close to the US border, in the 1950s and 60s. The unsentimental narrator Thomas introduces an unusual group of char... » 

This novel is set in a small town in Canada, close to the US border, in the 1950s and 60s. The unsentimental narrator Thomas introduces an unusual group of characters: Edna MacMillan, Thomas's volatile Trinidadian grandmother; Katarina, his elusive mother; and Henry, a black Chinese man. «