SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION • GLOBE AND MAIL'S BEST BOOKS OF 2024• CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024 • Groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired writers.

"Windham Campbell Prize–winning poet Lubrin makes her fiction debut with a thrilling and inventive collection centered on Black life in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. . . . Throughout, Lubrin plays with form and genre, interspersing traditional narratives with more experimental modes such as dramatic dialogues . . . and aphoristic writing resembling prose poetry. . . . Her gorgeous and innovative style shines on nearly every page. . . . It’s a monumental achievement." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A collection that is profound and inveterately inventive, Code Noir expands what is possible in the realm of narrative. With purposeful defiance, Lubrin writes stories that cut effortlessly across eras and continents with the Black diaspora, within and against a history of institutionalized violence and oppression. She pushes against the laws governing what words can and can’t do, emerging finally with a sharp-edged language that is entirely sui generis. Lubrin’s work is conceptual genius, allusive across a wide swath of culture, from jazz to literature to art. Code Noir is a singular achievement.” —2024 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize jury (Saeed Teebi, Joan Thomas, and Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike)

“Brilliant, challenging, and ecstatic. . . . Code Noir refracts hundreds of years of history into a lively book of fictions. . . . The end result is exactly right, obscuring and countering, rewriting and reweaving, the colonial ordering of the world. . . . [A] dazzling achievement.” —The Globe and Mail