André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His most recent novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Inspired by a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys (Coach House Books) questions what it means to be honorable, what it means to be faithful and what it means to sin.
