~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the CBC Canada Reads - 2024
~ New Release - 2023
In an alternate timeline in which the French never surrendered Detroit to the United States, its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of racism, while its children rule over their own kingdom in the trees . . .
A richly imagined story of community and a plea for persistence in the face of our uncertain path forward, The Future is a lyrical testament to the power we hold to protect the people and places we love together.
"Catherine Leroux's The Future is a magical response to William Golding's Lord of the Flies, wherein we meet a group of feral murderous children, whose meditations on life are so gorgeous, and absurd, and perverse that they are poetry." -- Heather O’Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Lonely Hearts Hotel, and When We Lost Our Heads