When ten-year-old Gabriel and his parents move into his deceased grandfather’s abandoned cabin to wait for the end of a pandemic, the big, dangerous world seems far away and Gabriel enjoys the freest summer of his young life. But tensions arise that test the family and lead to consequences that he will try to resolve throughout his life.
Spanning nearly half a century, The Diapause is a literary speculative novel about the near future, family, isolation, heartbreak, climate change, how we protect each other, and all the things we don’t know about the people we know best. Part White Fang, part Station Eleven, The Diapause is a novel about how the things we seek are often the things we didn’t know we’d lost. (By Invisible Publishing)
Andrew Forbes’ first short story collection What you need was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Trillium Book Award. His stories have appeared in numerous publications, including The Feathertale Review, Little Fiction, PRISM International, New Quarterly, and Maisonneuve Magazine. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario. His novella McCurdle’s Arm: A Fiction was released this summer.
