Scandal Bag

An extraordinarily affecting debut novel from a Writers’ Trust of Canada “rising star”—a writer who grew up on one island in the Caribbean (Jamaica) and immigrated to a very different one in the North Atlantic (Newfoundland), and whose work is uniquely informed by both places.

Xaiver Campbell’s debut novel Scandal Bag is a brilliant, fresh take on the classic bildungsroman. It tells the coming-of-age story of a gifted young, Black gay man named Jermaine, whose physical and emotional journey ...