The Sleeping Car Porter

The Sleeping Car Porter is kind of an ensemble farce with subtle paranormal elements, experienced through a porter for a sleeping car on a transcontinental voyage across Canada.

The porter is a gay (or bi?) black man in Canada in the 1920s, and there's a strong focus on the various aggressions and disadvantages he's exposed to in light of that.

Weird and enjoyable.

As a Canadian, I try to read the books that have been shortlisted for the Giller prize, (Canada's biggest fiction prize). Fresh story and topic, about a (closeted) gay man working as a porter on a cross-Canada train ride.