Cyril, now working as an intern for a major national newsroom and assisting on reporting a story on homegrown terrorism, tracks down Ari at the bar, and finds out that he is an Israeli who knew his father in Lebanon in the '80s. He'd even left a guest list that included one mysterious name: Ari. Which changes everything.Īt the reading of the will, it turns out that instead of a funeral, Pierre wanted a "roast" at a bar no one knew he frequented-The Only Café in Toronto's east end. But five years later, a single bone and a distinctive gold chain are recovered, and Pierre is at last declared dead. When, in the midst of a corporate scandal, he went missing after his boat exploded, his teenaged son Cyril didn't know how to mourn him. And he was especially silent about what had happened to him in Lebanon, the country he fled during civil war to come to Canada as a refugee. Though he married twice, became a high-flying lawyer and a father, he didn't let anyone really know him. A timely and gripping novel in which a son tries to solve the mystery of his father's death-a man who tried but could not forget a troubled past in his native Lebanon.
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