Code Noir

'Code Noir is a revelation... This book sings in searing language, telling stories that bristle and challenge, comfort and question.' Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, short-listed for the Booker Prize

'The collection displays tremendous stylistic breadth… The overall effect is a dizzying, disorienting view of 'history’s wide grave.' The New Yorker

'An interconnected allegory… Lubrin's iconoclastic flights subvert hierarchies and cover continents and aeons of pain.'The Miramichi Reader (starred review)

'Crackles with life and humor... In its formal inventiveness and sheer audaciousness, Code Noir is unlike anything else that I’ve ever read. Lubrin is a force.' Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake

'Code Noir is storytelling at its deepest and most intimate.... These stories are magic, and you must enter them as if you, too, are wondrous.' Dionne Brand, author of A Map to the Door of No Return

'A singular achievement.' Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of How to Pronounce Knife

'A book that radiates life – insistent, unbounded life… A virtuosic assembling of genres, voices, and experiences…with lines gripping the heart and stories suffused with beauty and tenderness.' David Chariandy, author of Brother

'Brilliant, challenging, and ecstatic… A dazzling achievement.' The Globe and Mail

'Visceral, disruptive... Astonishing... Canisia Lubrin has turned her attention to fiction in her striking new work, Code Noir... Play[ing] with form, time, and polyvocality... Grounded in the making and unmaking of historical narratives of Black diasporic experience.' Winnipeg Free Press