Fiction: Ablutions by Patrick DeWitt

Monday, May 14, 2012
It’s faintly terrific to see Patrick DeWitt’s mostly unremarked 2009 debut getting a second spin. Ablutions (Anansi) is a very different creature than DeWitt’s sophomore effort. Last year The Sisters Brothers went on to win the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and was a finalist for both the Scotiabank Giller Award and the Man Booker Prize. In short,