Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues Warner Books, 1996. Thomas tried to hide the salmon behind his back, but the guitar saw it. "We're plannin' on burnin' me up?" the guitar asked. "Yeah," Thomas said. He could not lie. The guitar laughed."That's all right," the guitar said. "You eat your fish. I'll
Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal (2008) McClelland & Stewart, 2010 I felt like a teenager when I started reading this novel. I'd switched purses seasonally and forgot to transfer my housekeys, so I ended up sitting on the front porch for a few hours waiting for Mr. BIP to come home.
Ray Robertson's Moody Food (2002) A hundred pages into Moody Food, I was still wondering if this was really The Book for Me. And, admittedly, that's the feeling I had right at the start: a football scene is not a cozy welcome for this reader. But there was also a
