Given the sudden and vehement uptick in climate-change disasters across the globe, we likely can expect novels with a focus on environmental issues to pop up with ever-increasing frequency. Two recent entries into the eco-fiction oeuvre, Michael Christie’s Canada Reads finalist Greenwood and Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize
The Librarianist Patrick deWitt House of Anansi Press, July Award winner Patrick deWitt returns after 2018’s French Exit with this novel about retired librarian Bog Comet who lives a solitary life surrounded by his books. An unexpected encounter with a confused elderly woman leads to a volunteer position at a local seniors’ centre, ultimately revealing