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Revision as of 03:57, 8 November 2022
The Sleeping Car Porter is a novel by Canadian writer Suzette Mayr, published in 2022 by Coach House Books.[1]
Set in the 1920s, the novel centres on Baxter, a Black Canadian and closeted gay immigrant from the Caribbean who is working as a railway porter to save money to fund his dream of getting educated as a dentist.[2]
Mayr credited poet Fred Wah with having given her the original suggestion to write about railway porters, and consulted books such as Cecil Foster's They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada, Stanley G. Grizzle's My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada and Johnnie F. Kirvin's Hey Boy! Hey George: The Pullman Porter for insight into the job and its working conditions.[1]
Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten works of fiction published in 2022.[3]
It was the winner of the 2022 Giller Prize.[4]
References
- ^ a b Eric Volmers, "Giller-shortlisted Calgary author Suzette Mayr's long journey to The Sleeping Car Porter". Calgary Herald, October 22, 2022.
- ^ Brett Josef Grubisic, "Suzette Mayr’s novel ‘The Sleeping Car Porter’ an artfully constructed story that moves, beguiles, and satisfies". Toronto Star, September 26, 2022.
- ^ "Best Books 2022: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-10-27.
- ^ Brad Wheeler, "Suzette Mayr wins the $100,000 Giller Prize". The Globe and Mail, November 7, 2022.
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