Out of My Skin
Daphne Baird impulsively leaves behind her boyfriend, her family, her whole life, for a new start in Montreal. Losing herself in the rhythmic roar of a copy shop by day, and haunting the sweltering, vibrant streets of the city by night, she collects fragments of histories and reconstructs other peoples’ lives.
Out of My Skin explores the things that bind us to places and people. It is a powerful tale of voyeurism, crisis, race, and family secrets that in its layering of contemporary events and personal histories subtly explores the effects and aftershocks of colonialism in the New World.
Tessa McWatt is a Guyanese Canadian novelist now living in the UK.
Other publications from this author include:
- THE SNOW LINE (2021)
- Where Are You, Agnes? (2020)
- Higher Ed (2015)
- Vital Signs (2011)
- Step Closer (2009)
- This Body (2004)
- DRAGONS CRY (2001)