• War hero, union activist, and trumpet musician Henderson Freeman returns to the home he once fled to deliver a eulogy for his estranged and enigmatic father, the archbishop of the Abyssinia Church of Canada.
• Henderson must come to terms with his church’s compliance with the plutocrats’ desire to keep Canada’s Black people down and weigh the decision to take a different road in life from that for which he was raised.
• A novel of introspection that centers on the intricate mix of rivalry, alienation, duty, and love in a Black father-and-son relationship.
• Set in 1948, George’s Run provides insights into the historical contributions of Black Canadians to the Second World War and North American labour movements.
• Born in Barbados and immigrated to Canada, Cecil Foster has been a reporter for various newspapers and was editor of Contrast, Canada's first Black-oriented newspaper.
• Foster previously researched and wrote about Black rail porters for the Globe and Mail bestseller They Call Me George, “a riveting, tour de force written by an award winning, master story-teller who entertains while he teaches” (The Caribbean Camera), which was named by CBC Books as one of six must-read non-fiction books for Black History Month and nominated for the Toronto Book Award.
• Foster's novel Sleep On, Beloved was shortlisted for the Ontario Trillium Book Prize.