A wonderfully readable book that, if I were not sharing, I'd read again. There are three stories involving four main characters. The stories are tenuously connected but otherwise could stand on their own and they do. Each chapter of the book focuses on one of the stories with time and place shifting chronologically within each story but not within the book as a whole. This three stories making up a novel struck me as odd and I idly wondered if the whole thing should really be called a novel or not. I say idly because I don't really care what we call the book, I enjoyed every minute of it.

In Montreal in 1996, Grace, a therapist, is out skiing one day and comes across a man, Tug, who has just failed to kill himself (by hanging- she sees the noose around his neck) lying in the snow. She feels the need to help him whether he wants her help or not and ultimately, she wants a relationship with Tug.
In New York, in 2002, we find Annie, a former patient of Grace (her professional parents had sent her as the thing to do for a messed up kid), now living on her own and attempting to be an actress.
We find Mitch, also a therapist and Grace's former husband of umpteen years, remarried to a woman with whom he's madly in love, but for some reason, in 2006 he decides to work far away from her, providing therapy to the inhabitants of Iqaluit.

These stories were fascinating to me as they raised questions about whether we can ever really help anyone, ever really know anyone; the risks and consequences of letting or not letting anyone get inside.

A Giller Prize Finalist and deservedly so.

I'm taking this book to our monthly BC meeting, if no takers from the others present then it will go on the shelf in the loft. But, if it happens that the traveling Cross-Canada bookbox makes it to this meeting, then this book may find itself in there.

To the finder of this book:
I hope you enjoy your new read.

Welcome, also, to the wonderful and wacky world of BookCrossing! Here you'll find a unique and worldwide community of book lovers sharing their books. This book is now yours! Read it, enjoy it. Keep it or pass it on to someone you know, return it to any Little Free Library or even release it into the wild. It is all up to you.

If you make a journal entry (you can do it anonymously or as a BookCrossing member) all previous readers of this book will be notified by e-mail and can follow this book on its travels. BookCrossing is free to join, completely confidential (you are known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your email address) and it's a whole lot of fun!

This book is currently sitting on the Winnipeg Official Bookcrossing Zone bookshelf in the loft of The Park Theatre & Movie Café, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg MB.

It is waiting there for a new reader to take home, read, and release back into the wild!

Winnipeg bookcrossers meet at my location on the second Wednesday of every month at 7pm to chat about books, swap great reads, and release on the OBCZ shelves. Please join us! We love to see new faces! You will enjoy the comfy atmosphere, the fabulous coffees and teas, and the yummy treats!

I picked this up from the OBCZ at tonight's meeting. I thought I would pass it to my mom and then maybe it will get released for the Canada Day Release Challenge.

This is a release for the Canada Day Release Challenge 2015.

Congratulations on finding this Canadian book, released in honour of Canada Day. I hope you enjoy it!