Next week, please join me for five full days of Giller, one sighting a day for each of the titles nominated for this year’s prize: Joseph Boyden for Through Black Spruce, Anthony De Sa for Barnacle Love, Marina Endicott for Good to a Fault, Rawi Hage for Cockroach, and Mary Swan for The Boys in the Trees.

This is the second of two weeks during which I respond to some of my first page sightings. I note only the first sentence, and structure my response to use the same number of words.

Here we go!

Yonge Line at Union Station

Caucasian male, late 20s, wearing black suit and overcoat, a black Nike gym bag slung across his chest.

The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway (Knopf)

Page one:

Arrow blinks.

Doggy, doggy.