num_pages: 224
description: Longlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller PrizeA mash-up that is part fabulism part faux biography and part satire Days by Moonlight conveys the experience of grief managing to transform its inarticulable and symbolic weight into a finely wrought literary work. -- Quill and QuireBotanist Alfred Homer ever hopeful and constantly surprised is invited on a road trip by his parents' friend Professor Morgan Bruno who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign language and towns that hold Indigenous Parades; it is a land of house burnings werewolves and witches.Complete with Alfred's drawings of plants both real and implausible Days by Moonlight is a Dantesque journey taken during the hour of the wolf that time of day when the sun is setting and the traveller can't tell the difference between dog and wolf. And it asks that perpetual question: how do we know the things we know are real and what is real anyway?
language: English
title: Days by Moonlight
publisher: Coach House Books