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Theresa Shea's debut novel, The Unfinished Child, was a word of mouth best-seller. A popular book club selection, the novel was nominated for several awards and sold over 12,000 copies. The Shade Tree, winner of the 2020 Guernica Prize for best novel manuscript, is her much-anticipated follow-up. Born in the United States, Shea moved to Canada as a teenager in 1977. She lives, parents, and writes in Edmonton.
An emotional, complex work that presents difficult, important questions at a high level of craft. -- --Guernica Prize Jurors Cyril Dabydeen, Margo LaPierre, and Matt Murphy In its account of almost half a century in the lives of two white Southern sisters and of the African Americans whose experiences are inextricable from their, The Shade Tree is brutally personal, heartbreakingly political - and remarkably written. Theresa Shea has combined boldness and subtlety with swaths of compassion to come up with a novel that's both complicated and ferociously clear. -- Joan Barfoot, Booker and Scotiabank Giller prizes nominee, and author of Abra, Luck, and Critical Injuries In her nuanced portrait of families riven by race and sex, Theresa Shea offers a searing indictment of Jim Crow's corrosive influence that, if unleashed and unquestioned, can make monsters of us all. Beautifully and unflinchingly written, this is a novel for our times. -- Terry Gamble, Author of The Water Dancers, Good Family, and The Eulogist
