Deni Y. Béchard
Deni Y. Béchard’s memoir, Cures for Hunger (Milkweed Editions, $24.00), portrays a highly unconventional portrait of the artist as a young man. Soon after Deni’s mother leaves his father and decamps with her three children to Virginia, Deni learns that his father was once a bank robber, a revelation that sets his imagination on fire. Deni can’t escape the sense that his father’s life holds the key to understanding himself, and to making sense of his own passions and longings. “. . . a poignant adventure story with a mystery. . .”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Béchard is also the author of the novel Vandal Love (Milkweed Editions, $16.00), which follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America and through the twentieth century. A family curse causes the Hervé children to be born either giants or runts. But none of the Hervés can abandon their longing for a place where they might find others like themselves. “. . . a strange and beautiful first novel...built sentence by luminous, surprising sentence."—Minneapolis Star Tribune
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