The Relatives

Lila is on a long, painful journey toward motherhood. Tess and Emily are reeling after their ugly separation and fighting over ownership of the embryos that were supposed to grow their family together. And thousands of miles away, the unknown man who served as anonymous donor to them all is being held in captivity in Somalia. While his life remains in precarious balance, his genetic material is a source of both creation and conflict.

What does it mean to be a family in our rapidly shifting world? What are our responsibilities to each other with increasing options for how to create a family?

As these characters grapple with life-altering changes, they will find themselves interconnected in ways they cannot have imagined, and forced to redefine what family means to them. (From Doubleday Canada)

Camilla Gibb is a writer who lives in Toronto. Her other books include the novelsMouthing the Words,Sweetness in the BellyandThe Beauty of Humanity Movementand the memoirThis is Happy.Sweetness in the Bellywon the 2006 Trillium Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

• Camilla Gibb on the merits of unpopularity
• 58 Canadian works of fiction coming out in spring 2021
• The CBC Books spring 2021 reading list

Interviews with Camilla Gibb

The Next Chapter5:10Camilla Gibb answers the Proust Questionnaire

The novelist and author of the memoir "This Is Happy" shares her favourite authors, her greatest fear, and more.

The Current8:26'Like a religious moment': The gift that gave Camilla Gibb a new life

Two decades ago, Camilla Gibb had set herself up for what she thought would be her dream job, in academia only to realize the realities of the ivory tower didn't sit right with her. Then a man she barely knew gave her a gift that would change her life.

Other books by Camilla Gibb