The Undertaking of Billy Buffone

A vivid portrait of lives intertwined in the search for redemption amidst the uncovering of dormant truths a small town tried to bury.
In the spirit of The Boys of St.Vincent, award winning author David Giuliano creates a story of trauma, humour and redemption. Catherine, a newly minted preacher, moves to Twenty-Six Mile House, an isolated community in northern Ontario and befriends the quirky undertaker Billy Buffone who has a disturbing secret he has carried for almost two decades. Billy's best friend, now deceased, leads the reader through the traumatic events of today and those from the never-forgotten past. The Undertaking of Billy Buffone is the 2022 winner of the AICW Bressani Literary Prize for Fiction.