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Anthony De Sa

Biography

Anthony De Sa

Anthony De Sa, author of the story collection BARNACLE LOVE, grew up in Toronto’s Portuguese community. He graduated from University of Toronto, did his postgraduate work at Queen’s University, and attended the Humber School for Writers and Ryerson University. He lives in Toronto with his wife and three boys. KICKING THE SKY is his first novel.

Anthony De Sa

Books by Anthony De Sa

Kicking the Sky
by Anthony De Sa - Fiction

It was 1977 when a shoeshine boy, Emanuel Jaques, was brutally murdered in Toronto. In the aftermath of the crime, 12-year-old Antonio Rebelo explores his neighborhood’s dark garages and labyrinthine back alleys along with his rapscallion friends. As the media unravels the truth behind the Shoeshine Boy murder, Antonio sees his immigrant family with new eyes, becoming aware of the frightening reality that no one is really taking care of him.