Linked stories
Barnacle Love
In Barnacle Love, a set of interlinked stories, Anthony De Sa moves with skill and ingenuity between folk tale, myth, and narratives of contemporary displacement.
Recognition
Praise
Reader and reviewer response
- "The tone is spare and elegiac; the stories are filled with carefully chosen details and sharply drawn characters. They have immense emotional and truthful power."Colm Toibin
- "The two parts of this intelligent yet passionate novel merge seamlessly into a double-layered, twice as effective, doubly meaningful story ... A beautiful musical piece stating and repeating its profoundly moving melody."Booklist, starred review
- "A moving and engaging read, its memorable images and heart's woes sometimes visceral in their power."The Globe and Mail
- "Barnacle Love is a book of exceptional balance. It's tender and raw, morbid and surprisingly gentle."The Vancouver Sun
- "Barnacle Love has the irresistible allure of familiarity and conviction. You're taken there because the author knows the place."The Toronto Star
- "A magical work of fiction, a multi-generational tale of old and new worlds, of immigrant fathers and their born-in-Canada sons."The Owen Sound Sun Times