This is well deserving of the Giller Prize. I loved the idea of giving dogs human consciousness and winding them up and watching them go. Apollo and Hermes open and close the novel. They made a bet. Anyway, aside from that this means I have to read Alexis' novel Pastoral (2014) and his new The Hidden Keys (2016) because, according to Maclean's, "Alexis has passed the halfway mark of his planned quincunx, five linked novels, and the series is clearly going to be a tour of (almost) abandoned genres" OK, one QUINCUNX is a sick new word for me, and two, this all reminds me of the abandoned genre McSweeney's that I have yet to finish. It's really too bad that I don't teach Creative Writing anymore. Ah well.
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