LOVE WILL OUT

“David Michael’s Love Will Out is a unique and captivating Newfoundland love story. The tale of how Ruth and Ali’s stars become uncrossed is one of a sort I’ve never read before. A Lebanese man and a Jewish woman aren’t often lovers in literature, and especially not in St. John’s. David Michael brings pre-Confederation St. John’s, and a community of people too rarely written about, as delightfully to life as he does the main characters of this book. Love does indeed triumph in Love Will Out, and Michael has tenderly captured the story of his parents and, by implication, that of his own existence in this poignant tale.”

Wayne Johnston

Author of the international best seller, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

“Love Will Out is a fictionalized account of the author’s ancestors who arrived in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in the early 1900s. Two families - one Jews from Poland, the other Christian Maronites from Lebanon - struggle to come to terms with one another and with the largely English-Irish community they find themselves living in. What at first appears to be a coming-of-age story turns out to be anything but. It was truly a pleasure to read. The plot moves forward at breakneck speed. Hold on to your hats.”

Bernice Morgan

Author of Random Passage

“Love Will Out is a wonderful and touching tale of love, joyfully written, about a collection of immigrants from different ethnicities struggling to make a new start in the midst of the teeming life in the old port city of St John’s at the turn of the last century. A fascinating and heartfelt story of a way of life now gone in a country now vanished. In his first book, David Michael has shown us in glorious detail a side of life in my own port city of St John’s that I had not known before. With a story both engaging and heartwarming, he takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through a community full of life, laughter, disaster and above all else, love. A real page turner.”

Greg Malone

Author of Don’t Tell the Newfoundlanders

“Set in St. John’s in the tumultuous 1920s and 30s, David Michael’s beguiling yet insightful story filled with unexpected twists and turns is at once a modern folktale, an ingenuous love story, a very rare and revelatory glimpse into Newfoundland’s small yet volatile Lebanese and Jewish diasporas, and a TV dramedy series in-waiting. I was transported.”

Andy Jones

Author of Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves

“Love Will Out by David Michael is a page-turning coming of age love story full of twists and turns. I look forward to reading upcoming novels by this author.”

Stephanie Collins

The Miramichi Reader