About the Author
FRANCES ITANI has written eighteen books. Her novels include That’s My Baby; Tell, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Requiem, chosen by the Washington Post as one of the top fiction titles of 2012; Remembering the Bones, published internationally and shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; and the #1 bestseller Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, selected for CBC’s Canada Reads and translated into seventeen languages. A three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize, Frances Itani is a Member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of a 2019 Library and Archives Canada Scholars Award. She lives in Ottawa.
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Also by Frances Itani
Fiction
That’s My Baby
Tell
Listen!
Requiem
Missing
Remembering the Bones
Poached Egg on Toast
Deafening
Leaning, Leaning Over Water
Man Without Face
Pack Ice
Truth or Lies
Poetry
A Season of Mourning
Rentee Bay
No Other Lodgings
Best Friend Trouble
Linger by the Sea
Copyright
The Company We Keep
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EPub Edition AUGUST 2020 EPub ISBN: 978-1-4434-5754-5
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Print ISBN: 978-1-4434-6264-8
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Title: The company we keep : a novel / Frances Itani.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 2020022882X | Canadiana (ebook) 20200228854 | ISBN 9781443457538 (softcover) | ISBN 9781443462648 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781443457545 (ebook)
Classification: LCC PS8567.T35 C66 2020 | DDC C813/.54—dc23
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