Dayspring, Anthony Oliveira
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A luminous, queer reimagining of biblical love and loss, Dayspring blends myth, memoir, and faith into a lyrical meditation on desire, devotion, and what it means to survive love’s divine ruin.
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Dayspring
Paperback – November 4, 2025
by Anthony Oliveira (Author)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
One of Indigo’s Top 10 Literary Fiction Books of 2024
One of CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2024
A luminous, daring debut that fuses scripture, mythology, and queer desire, Dayspring is both a reimagining of the gospel and a profoundly intimate exploration of love, loss, and transcendence.
Anthony Oliveira’s Dayspring retells the story of the disciple “whom Christ loved”—the witness, the companion, and the one who remembers—in prose that moves between poetry, confession, and revelation. In a collapsing world where ancient saints brush shoulders with modern lovers, Oliveira conjures an unholy symphony of devotion and defiance.
Sacred and erotic, visceral and visionary, this novel bridges the divine and the carnal, turning scripture inside out to reveal the beating heart of queer faith and longing. With echoes of Anne Carson and Madeline Miller, Dayspring is a revelatory meditation on memory, myth, and the cost of love itself.
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