Edward Riche is an award-winning writer for page, stage and screen. His first novel, Rare Birds, was adapted into a major motion picture starring William Hurt and Molly Parker, and his second novel, The Nine Planets, was a Globe and Mail Best Book and won the Thomas Raddall Head Award. He is also the author of Easy to Like, which was a finalist for the Winterset Award and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Riche lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Today I Learned It Was You

Edward Riche’s new novel skewers small-town government and modern identity politics. When a retired actor who frequents a city park is purported to be transitioning from man to deer, municipal authorities in St. John’s, Newfoundland, find themselves confronted by an exasperatingly difficult problem. Complications mount as advocates, bureaucrats, police, and local politicians try to corral the situation, which escalates into an even bigger problem after the story blows up on Facebook. Today I Learned It Was You is another bitingly brilliant comic novel from one of Canada’s funniest and most astute literary talents.