Giller Prize ぎらーしょう
Edition 29 (2022)
English-language works (including translations)Canadian literatureFiction (novels, short story collections)
Winners
1 peopleSet on a 1929 train, this historical novel follows Baxter, a Black queer sleeping-car porter, as he faces abusive white passengers, unsettling ghostly presences, and a secret love. It captures the harsh realities of rail labor and the pain of being treated as invisible, while balancing quiet humor with mounting tension.
As the train rattles on, the hopes and fears of a man forced into invisibility quietly expand.
224 pages
racismrail laborqueer desirehistorical fictionmemory and self-preservation