When Albert ventures down from the mountain, he sets in motion a chain of events that changes everything. Davis is the author of The Grimoire of Kensington Market, Against a Darkening Sky, The Empty Room, Our Daily Bread, and The Radiant City.

As rumours and innuendo about the Evans family spread, Ivy seeks refuge in the company of Dorothy Carlisle, an independent-minded widow who runs a local antiques store. Her father, Tom Evans, a local bread delivery man, struggles to keep his troubledmarriage together. One of the things I’ve been troubled by in the past few years is the increasing polarization I see around me. Twenty-one-year-old Albert Erskine dreams of a better life and explains to his new friend, Bobby Evans, a teenager from town, the meaning of the “man’s code”: “You keep your secrets to yourself and you keep your weaknesses a secret and your hurts a secret and your dreams you bury double deep.” Bobby’s eight-year-old sister, Ivy, suffers from incessant bullying by her classmates. OUR DAILY BREAD is a compelling narrative set in a closely observed, sometimes dark, but ultimately life-enhancing landscape. Yet in both groups, nearly everyone has secrets, and nothing is as it seems. Davis comes the deeply compassionate story of what happens when we view our. The intolerant, self-righteous Gideonites decline to intervene, believing their neighbours to be beyond salvation. She has been longlisted for the Giller Prize and the ReLit Awards, and shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. For generations, the clan’s children have suffered unspeakable acts of abuse, incest and psychological torture. Davis is the author of The Grimoire of Kensington Market, Against a Darkening Sky, The Empty Room, Our Daily Bread, and The Radiant City. The Erskine Clan, long shunned by the people of Gideon, live in secrecy and isolation on North Mountain.

A novel about what happens when we view our neighbours as “The Other” and the transformative power of unlikely friendships, Our Daily Bread is inspired by the true story of the Goler Clan of Nova Scotia. Her previous novel, OUR DAILY BREAD, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named as one of the Best Books of the Year by The Globe & Mail and.

Our Daily Bread by Lauren B. Davis