By Selma Carvalho

Lindsay Pereira’s fourth book is titled Super (Harper Collins, 2026), a pun on the word which the protagonist Sukhpreet Gill is fond of using to express appreciation but is also a job commonly undertaken by immigrants in North America, that of superintendent or maintenance man of a block of flats, the popular contraction being “super.” In Super, at once, we are plunged into the world of Baudelaire’s flâneur, this time not the flâneur of unknown cities and towns, but the flâneur Sukhpreet, who floats above his own life and examines it both intimately but also from a distance.