- Vandal Love
"Vandal Love" is a novel by Canadian Canadian author
D. Y. Béchard . It was first published in 2006 by Doubleday Canada.The novel follows generations of an unusual
French-Canadian family across North America, and through the twentieth century, as they struggle to find their place in the world. A family curse – a genetic trick resulting from centuries of hardship – causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts.Book I of "Vandal Love" follows the giants’ line, exploring Jude Hervé’s career as a boxer in Georgia and
Louisiana in the 1960s, his escape from that brutal life alone with his baby daughter Isa, and her eventual decision to enter into a strange, chaste marriage with a much older man.Book II traces a different kind of life entirely, as the runts of the family discover that their power lies in a kind of unifying love. François searches for years for his missing father; his own son, Harvey, flees from modern society into spiritual quests. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves.
Publishing history
*Doubleday Canada (January 17, 2006)
Awards
*2007 -
Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First BookExternal links
* [http://www.aelaq.org/mrb/article.php?issue=17&article=506&cat=2 Review by Ami Sands Brodoff in "Montreal Review of Books", Spring 2006 Nineteenth Issue, Volume 9, No. 3]
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