![]() ![]() Entwined in their story are Kim’s ailing mother, Marian Father André Rowe, whose mission to guide others involves him in a decision with troubling consequences Rodrigo Cantero, a young Colombian man, living illegally in the city and Rosemary Yates, a woman whose faith-based belief in the duty to give asylum to any who seek it, even those judged guilty, draws Harold to her, before a fateful choice changes the future for them all.Ĭities of Refuge is a novel of profound moral tension and luminous prose. As he investigates the crime on his own, the darkest hours from his past revisit him, and he gradually begins to unravel. The attack also torments Kim's father, Harold, an historian of Latin America. ![]() ![]() Thrown deep into turmoil, in the weeks and months that follow, she confronts her fear by returning to the night, in writing, searching for harbingers of the incident, and clues to the identity of her assailant. One summer night on a side street in downtown Toronto, Kim Lystrander is attacked by a stranger. ![]() At the story’s centre is the complex, intensely charged relationship between a 28-year-old woman and the father who abandoned her when she was young. In Cities of Refuge, Michael Helm’s keenly anticipated new novel, a single act of violence resonates through several lives, connecting closeby fears to distant political terrors. ![]()
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