Dayspring

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Shortlisted for the 2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers - One of Indigo's Top 10 Literary Fiction Books of 2024 and Top 100 Books of 2024

A singular, stunning debut that transcends and transfigures genre--at once a bold retelling of biblical tales and an unforgettable contemporary coming-of-age story, connected in collapsing time across millennia.

There are few love stories in the holy books. Love is what ruins. Love is what costs. Love is a flaming sword at our backs, a garden left to ruin and to wild.

In Dayspring, Anthony Oliveira brings to vibrant, glorious life the gospel according to the disciple Christ loved--his companion in the days before the crucifixion, the only instrument that remembers with fidelity his sound.

Sacred, profane, and rich with explicit desire and a poetic attention to form, Dayspring weaves electric and heart-wrenching stories of passion, grief, destruction, and survival into a narrative unmoored in space and time, one that re-examines and re-frames great and doomed figures from scripture and history, even as it casts its keen eye on the trials of modern life.

Seamlessly blending fiction, memoir, and verse in the exhilarating tradition of Anne Carson and Madeline Miller, Dayspring is an immersive, mesmerizing work, one that wrenches beauty from cataclysm and finds bliss in apocalypse.

Author: Anthony Oliveira
Publisher: Strange Light
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.14w x 1.26d
ISBN13: 9780771003820
ISBN10: 077100382X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Religious | General

About the Author
Anthony Oliveira is a National Magazine and GLAAD Award-winning author, film programmer, pop culture critic, podcaster, and PhD living in Toronto.