By Meher Pestonji. Vincent Delacroix’ book, Small Boat, short listed for the 2025 Booker is a philosophically fictitious version of an incident that occurred on the night of November 23/24, 2021. An inflatable dinghy, overloaded with thirty migrants, capsized, drowning 27 refugees.  Small Boat is a startling, unexpected book that philosophizes, as much as exposes the frailty of the human condition today.