We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas HynesGovernor General Award for Fiction 2017
The winner of this year's Governor-General's Literary Award for English-language fiction, in which an ex-con embarks on a cross-country road trip with his girlfriend's ashes, is "a potent and precise manual of how human disasters are made," Alix Hawley says. "Hynes's gift is in serving up the pieces of the story to fall as they will, leaving you to assemble the smash.
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