It's the late nineties, when it is still possible to disappear, and Abby is at an impasse between self-destruction and dissolution. Just months after the death of her son, in a last-ditch effort to escape her reality, Abby buys a $500 car, tucks a buck knife in her glove box, and makes one impulsive move: she takes an exit south and keeps driving. It's in a small town in central Mexico that Abby's physical journey comes to an end, and it's there amongst other outcasts and expats that Abby might finally choose to see beyond her own grief. (From Guernica Editions)

Catherine Black is a Toronto-based author and Associate Professor at OCAD University. Her collection of prose poetry, Bewilderness, was nominated for the 2020 Pat Lowther Award. Blessed Nowhere is her first novel and was the 2023 winner of the Guernica Prize.