Falling Hour av Geoffrey Morrison

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<p><span><b>THE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023</b></span><strong><br></strong></p><p><b>CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023</b><span><b><br></b></span></p><p><strong>All talk, no action: <i>The Mezzanine</i> meets <i>Ducks, Newburyport</i> in this meandering and captivating debut</strong></p>

 
<p>It’s a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, he will sift through the pieces and traverse the baroque landscape of his own thoughts: the theology of nosiness, the beauty of the arbutus tree, the pathos of Gene Hackman, the theory of quantum immortality, Louis Riel’s letter to an Irish newspaper, the baleful influence of Calvinism on the Scottish working class, the sea, the CIA, and, ultimately, thinking itself and how it may be represented in writing. The result is a strange, meand