![]() Jean’s interest in her doppelganger is moderate at first, but very soon consumes just about every waking moment of her life, threatening her relationship with her family and ostensibly her sanity. The essential premise is that Jean Mason, a Toronto bookstore owner, is told that there’s another person walking around the eponymous Bellevue Square who looks exactly like her-except her doppelganger has shorter hair. Now that’s how you start a novel, I thought, and eagerly read on. “My doppelganger problems began one afternoon in early April,” it began. ![]() That’s why, when I read the first line of Bellevue Square, I was hooked. One in particular had about 80 pages of exposition and background on characters who didn’t seem to do anything. The first two books shall remain nameless, but neither resonated with me and both were a struggle to finish. I googled “magical realism Canadian books 2019” and found a list of books to read, including Michael Redhill’s book, Bellevue Square, which was third on my list. In late August of this year, I decided that I should, as a Canadian author, be more of a literary steward and indulge in great Canadian fiction. ![]()
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