Animal Person

A petty argument between two sisters is interrupted by an unexpected visitor. Adjoining motel rooms connect a family on the brink of a new life with a criminal whoselegacy will haunt them for years to come. A connoisseur of other people's secrets is undone by what he finds in a piece of lost luggage. In the wake of a tragic accident, a young man must contend with what is owed to the living and to the dead. And in the O. Henry Award-winning story Lagomorph,a man's relationship with his family's long-lived pet rabbit opens up to become a profound exploration of how a marriage fractures.

Muscular and tender, beautifully crafted, and alive with an elemental power, these stories explore the struggle for meaning and connection in an age when many of us feel cut off from so much, not least ourselves. This is a collection that beats with raw emotion and shimmers with the complexity of our shared human experience, and it confirms Alexander MacLeod's reputation as a modern master of the short story. (From Penguin Random House Canada)

Animal Personis available April 2022.

Alexander MacLeod is a short story writer and academic from Cape Breton and raised in Windsor, Ont.MacLeod'sdebut short story collectionLight Liftingwas shortlistedfor the 2010 ScotiabankGiller Prize, the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Prize. It won the Atlantic Book Award.In 2019, he won an O. Henry Award for his short storyLagomorph.He currently lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

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Interviews with Alexander MacLeod

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Judging the best new books in Canada. Local writer and English Professor Alexander MacLeod dishes on what it was like to be a juror for the Giller Prize.

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