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  • WINNER | 2018
    Scotiabank Giller Prize
  • SHORTLIST
    Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
  • FINALIST | 2018
    Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • SHORTLIST | 2018
    Booker Prize

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Awards

  • WINNER | 2018
    Scotiabank Giller Prize
  • SHORTLIST
    Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
  • FINALIST | 2018
    Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • SHORTLIST | 2018
    Booker Prize

Guides

Discussion Guide for

Provides questions, discussion topics, suggested reading lists, introductions and/or author Q&As, which are intended to enhance reading groups’ experiences.

(Please note: the guide displayed here is the most recently uploaded version; while unlikely, any page citation discrepancies between the guide and book is likely due to pagination differences between a book’s different formats.)

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