Dante's Indiana

When Prin's wife, dismayed by his indiscretion with an old flame, takes their four daughters to stay with family in the States, Prin finds himself living alone in the Toronto condominium newly built on the site of the college where he used to teach. Bitter about his solitude and filled with regret, struggling to find purpose in his faith and redeem himself to his family, he takes a dubious-sounding job in Terre-Haute, Indiana, and joins a group of earnest eccentrics working as consultants for Charlie Packer, the evangelical millionaire who dreams of building a Dante-themed amusement park that will revitalize the opioid-ravaged town. Though Prin signs on with mixed motives, it's not long before he's intensely involved in his coworker's personal tragedies-addiction, their own family breakdowns-and the struggles of a town reeling from the fallout of a Black teenager's death. As the project spins out of control, Prin tries to reconcile with his family and with God, and find his way back home. The standalone sequel to Original Prin, a New York Times Editor's Choice, and coinciding with the 700th anniversary of Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante's Indiana is a darkly comic look at the social and spiritual problems plaguing 21st century North America.