Lawrence Hill

HarperCollins Canada is proud to share with you this collection of HarperCollins Canadian Classics, featuring the masterworks of some of the finest writers in the country that reveal to us essential truths about the way we live.

Langston Cane V is thirty-eight, divorced, and working as a government speech writer, until
he’s fired for sabotaging a minister’s speech. It seems the perfect time for Langston, the son of a white mother and prominent black father, to embark on a quest to uncover his family’s past—and to discover his own sense of self.

Any Known Blood follows five generations of an African-Canadian-American family in a compelling
story that slips effortlessly from the slave trade of nineteenth-century Virginia to the modern, predominantly white suburb of Oakville, Ontario—once a final stop on the Underground Railroad.