LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZETHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023All talk no action The Mezzanine meets Ducks Newburyport in this meandering and captivating debutampamp10ampamp10 ampamp10Its a hot summer night and Hugh Dalgarno a 31yearold 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 Rielampamp8217s 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 meandering sojourn as if the historyhaunted landscapes of W.