Fiction: You Could Believe in Nothing by Jamie Fitzpatrick

Jamie Fitzpatrick’s debut novel is, on the face of it a book about a early-middle-aged man who plays recreational hockey and who is dealing with a number of personal crises. Since I am none of those things, the book didn’t instantly shout “read me,” despite the fact that, like me, Fitzpatrick hails from Newfoundland.So the book sat with me for a while. Then recently, I was grading papers until