Literary fiction exploring memory, identity, and the quiet fractures that shape a life. Featured title: In Pieces.
The work lives in the quiet spaces — what families don’t say, what memory edits, and what survives anyway.
Current release + upcoming titles.
A haunting meditation on memory, sibling rivalry, and the quiet lies we tell ourselves to survive.
“I was seven years old when I decided to stop loving my sister.”
Upcoming novel. Title announced. Release details to follow.
Upcoming novel. Title announced. Release details to follow.
“I was seven years old when I decided to stop loving my sister.”
In Pieces is a psychologically intimate portrait of memory, grief, and the fragile architecture of family life — and what happens when the walls we built to stay safe begin to fall.
“Patient, psychologically astute, and unafraid to examine the small fractures that shape a life.”
“This book wrecked me in the quietest way.”
“Thoughtful, haunting, and deeply relatable.”
Author Bio
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. In a household where reading the room wasn’t a metaphor — it was survival. He learned early to notice what others miss, to understand what is felt but not said, and to hold steady under pressure.
He lost his infant sister, Taisha, before he was old enough to understand loss. She stayed with him. She speaks through everything he writes.
He has spent decades working in environments where people are at their most exposed — crisis response, emergency medical care, community counselling, and military service. Alongside this, he studied business, digital media arts, governance, and computer science across Canadian institutions. Every discipline sharpened the same instinct: to see people clearly, to name what others avoid, and to tell the truth without softening it.
His work speaks to those who have lived through something they were never meant to carry alone — and are still here.
His debut novel, In Pieces (2026), follows a woman who spent thirty years walled off from her sister after a moment of childhood guilt — and, at the end of her life, is forced to confront what she buried. It is dedicated to his mother, who buried his sister Taisha before he was old enough to understand death.
His second novel, Based on a True Story, is the account he has never been able to stop writing: a boy growing up in a Toronto household shaped by love, survival, and the weight of what is never said — and the long road back to himself. It is dedicated: For Taisha. For the boy in the bus shelter.
He is also the author of A Fragile Bliss, Paper Sky, and Also, I Love You. Bye.
Both novels end the same way. Someone gets up. Someone keeps going.
That is who Lawrence Gittens Jr. is. It is also why he writes.