Bindu Suresh's THE ROAD BETWEEN US longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize
JURY CITATION
“The books on this year’s Giller Prize longlist represent a range of Canadian identities and experiences: characters on the open prairies, claustrophobic communities in our urban centers, and boundless representations of the imagined worlds in which Canadians find themselves. The powerful voices on this longlist depict a Canada and a world that’s compelling, dangerous, and simultaneously compassionate and inviting. These works illuminate the everyday and the otherworldly, considering what it means to be human in these funny, sad, joyful, and complicated times. Our longlist explicates the best and worst of us and elevates stories that are concerned with our country and the world beyond its borders, our preoccupations with the land we inhabit and disturb. These books investigate what it means to live here. Whenever that might be. They uncover unexpected communities and friendships, rendering with precision and beauty the anxieties and heartaches tethered to life and death. These texts demonstrate how we are an interconnected, global community, however cacophonous our collective cries. The power of the voices on this year’s longlist astonished the judges. These authors urgently compel readers to be transported, to be lifted up, and ultimately, to love.”
ABOUT THE ROAD BETWEEN US
A lover's knot of a novel that spans continents and decades, The Road Between Us delves into the entangled lives of its ensemble cast.
Estela, a lawyer, struggles professionally after a deep childhood loss and an ill-advised undergraduate dalliance. Ash is a diplomat posted to Buenos Aires and Beijing who wants what he can’t have. Ophélie, a nurse, makes a grievous medical error that alters the course of her life. And Roman is an academic whose careless sexual escapades after a painful divorce lead to even more painful consequences.
Tense, poetic, and as binge-worthy as a miniseries, The Road Between Us explores why we make the decisions we do, and how those decisions affect the people we love.