Nominated for the 2015 Giller Prize. Nominated for the 2015 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Among the National Post's 50 Best Books of 2015One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2015Among NOW Toronto's Top 10 Books of 2015In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. There is one magic cinema and everyone has a secret of some kind.
"Mesmeric, sensuous ... [Smith] deftly allows us to discern grubbing desires, and, in doing so, our own prejudices. Epiphanies tend to fly past the characters themselves, but they hit us head-on."
Lisa Moore, The Walrus
"Smith, a long-time Globe and Mail columnist, is a gifted anthropologist of the urbane. Those gifts are on full display throughout Confidence."
The Globe and Mail
"[Confidence] may to the uninitiated seem otherworldly in its lasciviousness; to the initiated, it seems merely accurate."
