~ Hardcover

~ Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize - 2023

~ New Release - 2023

In Study for Obedience a young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. 

With a sharp, lyrical voice, Sarah Bernstein powerfully explores questions of complicity and power, displacement and inheritance.  Study for Obedience is a finely tuned, unsettling novel that confirms Bernstein as one of the most exciting voices of her generations. 

"An absurdist, darkly funny novel about the rise of xenophobia, as seen through the eyes of a stranger in an unnamed town – or is it?  Bernstein’s urgent, crystalline prose upsets expectations, and what transpires is a meditation on survival itself." -- The Booker Prize 2023 Judges Panel