The debut novel
In Pieces
A child grows up in a house full of locked rooms—some real, some learned. When a single moment shatters everything, memory doesn’t disappear. It fractures.
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Literary fiction from Toronto
Lawrence
Gittens Jr.
Stories for the things we carry.
Lawrence Gittens Jr. is a Toronto-based literary fiction author writing stories about memory, grief, love, survival, and the quiet fractures that shape a life.
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The featured novel
In Pieces
Some things don’t break all at once.
A child grows up in a house full of locked rooms—some real, some learned. When a single moment shatters everything, memory doesn’t disappear. It fractures. Told through the voice of a girl who remembers too much and understands too little, In Pieces traces the quiet collapse of innocence.
“I was seven years old when I decided to stop loving my sister.”
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The bookshelf
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Two stories. Distinct worlds. Each one asking what it means to keep going.
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Also, I Love You, Bye
Some relationships don’t end—they unravel. Told in fragments of memory, distance, and everything left unsaid, this story traces the quiet collapse of a connection that once felt inevitable.
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Stories still to come
Four forthcoming works, each with its own world to enter.
A Fragile Bliss
Fifteen-year-old Barbara Ashford knows when something feels off. After her father’s accident, the woman who comes home isn’t the mother she remembers.
Paper Sky
In the overlooked corners of Jane and Finch, a man begins to lose his grip on what’s real. Memories slip. Voices surface.
Safe
Constance and Raphael find each other in a city that doesn’t allow it. What they build together isn’t just fragile—it’s forbidden.
Based on a True Story
Raised in a home shaped by violence and control, a boy learns early that survival isn’t physical—it’s mental.
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Writing from
what remains.
Lawrence Gittens Jr. is a Toronto-based literary fiction author whose novels are not inspired by true events — they are true events.
The son of immigrant parents from Guyana and Trinidad, he grew up in Toronto’s west end. He learned early to notice what others miss, to understand what is felt but not said, and to hold steady under pressure.
His work speaks to those who have lived through something they were never meant to carry alone — and are still here.
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