A Novel

It’s the late nineties, a time when it is still possible to disappear, and Abby is at an impasse between self-destruction and dissolution. Just months after the death of her son, in a last-ditch effort to escape her reality, Abby buys a $500 car, tucks a buck knife in her glove box, and makes one impulsive move: she takes an exit south and keeps driving. It’s in a small town in central Mexico that Abby’s physical journey comes to an end, and it’s there amongst other outcasts and expats that Abby might finally choose to see beyond her own grief.

Praise for Blessed Nowhere

This is a novel rich with life and empathy in a sea of grief. One of the most beautiful books I have read. — Nazanine Hozar, author of Aria, a Globe and Mail bestseller

A good writer will make you feel, a master writer will make you feel things for the first time. Blessed Nowhere is a story of love and impossible grief but also of hope that transcends. It’s a haunting book that holds you gently as it whispers and weeps right into your soul while you turn its pages, unable to stop listening. — Jowita Bydlowska, author of Monster

Catherine Black deftly maps the shattering territory of grief and its devastating wake into a story of emotional survival and human resilience that shimmers. Bleak, beautiful, mesmerizing. —Heidi Sopinka, author of Utopia and The Dictionary of Animal Languages

Blessed Nowhere by Catherine Black tells a story of grief so immense that the only way to survive is to suspend existence. Black’s writing pulses with heat and energy: dizzying and spectacular. Her unforgettable cast of misfit characters are as gritty as sand in your teeth; as tender as a kiss. Her landscapes are fever dream vivid. Black delivers this story with lung-compressing power. A must-read! —Hollay Ghadery, author of Fuse

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