Toronto: Anthony De Sa

Anthony De Sa: "They all stood up and they clapped," he said in an interview, sitting in an office that looms above the city he's lived in all his life. "And then after that boy, did they listen.", according to Times Colonist. In the summer of 1977, 12-year-old Portuguese shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques went missing on the Yonge Street Strip, then a dodgy cesspool. His body was later found mangled, the victim of a sexual assault, in a plastic bag on the roof of a sex shop and TORONTO - Anthony De Sa is a man with a mighty memory. He vividly remembers, for example, the reception from his students when he returned to Toronto's Michael Power/St. Joseph High School, where he taught English, after attending the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala as a finalist. Being nominated for one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards for his debut will do that. Now, five years after "Barnacle Love," an interconnected collection of short stories about a Portuguese-Canadian family, he's exploring his community even more deeply with "Kicking the Sky," a novel inspired by a murder that De Sa says marked an indelible end to the era of "Toronto the Good." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.