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WINNER OF THE 2025 TORONTO BOOK AWARD
"Striking, elegant." - Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review
An activist priest provides sanctuary for an encampment of unhoused people in her churchyard
The housing crisis plaguing major urban centres has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022, some of them found their…
Why read it?
1 author picked Encampment as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
My son works with the unhoused in our city.
This is a book about extreme compassion, and the long and torturous work of it in the face of neighbourhood fear and municipal hostility towards those who live without fixed addresses and all that that entails.
Further, I see in Encampment the hope that on a personal and social level, we all have it within us to understand people we didn't think we could and keep alive the capacity we're born with to love those whom so many tell us we should not.
From Richard's list on Richard Harrison's favorite books to answer sorrow with understanding.
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