Sugaring Off [TRADE PAPER ]

Longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize and winner of the Governor Generals Literary Award for French-Language Fiction,Sugaring Offprobes intimacy, denial, and how we are tied to otherswhether those we love or those we exploit.

On the surface, Adam and Marion are the embodiment of success: wealthy, attractive, in love. While holidaying in Marthas Vineyard, Adam surfs into a local young woman, Celia. The accident leaves her injured and financially at risk; for Adam and Marion, it opens a fault of loneliness, rage, and desires that have too long been ignored.

Like a modern Virginia Woolf, Britt abrades the surface layer of our outward personas, delving into the complexity and contradictions of relationships. In this eviscerating critique of privilege, she asks what happens when one can no longer play a rolewhether in a couple, family, or social structureand exposes the resulting friction between pleasure and consequence.

"An accurate, uncomplacent depiction of Western society and of the disparity that exists between classes and ethnicities, this brilliantly written story joins the family of great North American novels and asks one fundamental question: however privileged we may be, is it possible to live without relying on others? In this clever and lucid fresco, complex characters are confronted with crises which are not unconnected to the paradoxes inhabiting them." —Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Jury Citation

FANNY BRITTis a playwright, writer, and translator. She is the winner of multiple Governor Generals Literary Awards, a Libris Award, a Joe Shuster Award, and was nominated for a Governor Generals Literary Award for Childrens Literature.Faires les sucreswon the Governor Generals Literary Award for French-language Fiction in 2021. Britt has written a dozen plays and translated more than fifteen works by many American, Canadian, British, and Irish playwrights. Born in Northel“%