Proof I Was Here

**Long shortlisted for the 2020 ReLit Award for Novel**
**Finalist for the 2019 Foreword INDIES Award for Literary Fiction**

Days after she arrives in Barcelona, Niki's world is turned upside down when her fiancé calls off their engagement. Unwilling to return to Toronto and face a looming assault charge, she turns to life on the streets. Living among pickpockets, squatters and graffiti artists in a city she barely knows, she is challenged to reassess her ideas about family, luck and art. With the help of a passionate Catalan separatist who dreams of building a new country from the ground up, Niki realizes that starting her life over from scratch could be an opportunity – if she can just find a way to clear her name.