Michael Crummey, finalist in Fiction for Sweetland (Doubleday Canada)
Pick: Lila, Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) I read Robinson’s National Book Award winner Gilead a few years back and was completely floored by it. Narrated by a bookish geriatric preacher in the American midwest who unexpectedly falls in love with an uneducated drifter forty years his junior, Gilead was pitch-perfect. Lila offers the same story from the point of view of the drifter. Raised among a small caravan of itinerant workers in the 1920s and 30s, Lila crisscrossed the midwest from one nameless farm to another. For much of her …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
