The Mysteries
A twenty-eight-year-old writer bursts onto the scene with this virtuoso debut novel in which a woman’s disappearance unlocks the dark secrets of a small town
“Secrets had a way of growing inside you. It became difficult to breathe sometimes, a struggle in the company of other people to pretend that all was well. Mike would never forgive her if he knew what she’d done.”
– from The Mysteries
With literary finesse and an assured eye for the complexities of our most human desires and failings, Robert McGill has created a multi-layered, utterly engaging novel set in a small Ontario community in which, it seems, everyone has something to hide.
Alice Pederson has been missing for almost two years. Her husband, Mike, and their…
Robert McGill was born and raised in Wiarton, Ontario. His first novel, The Mysteries, was named one of the top five Canadian fiction books of 2004 by Quill & Quire, and his short fiction has appeared in The Journey Prize Anthology and Toronto Life. His nonfiction book The Treacherous Imagination: Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction is forthcoming. A Rhodes Scholar and fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows, he lives in Toronto, where he writes and teaches. Visit Robert at robert-mcgill.com.
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