The Death of Tony: On Belonging in Two Worlds

The acclaimed novelist who wrote this book wasn’t always Antanas. Growing up in the immigrant hub of Weston, Ontario—with a childhood of Lithuanian summer camp, folk dancing, and booze-soaked Christmases—Sileika was known to friends and teachers as Tony. It wasn’t until he entered university and began to understand his deep attachment to his heritage that he shed the anglicized name and became Antanas Sileika, the wr...