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Marche on Down to Harbourfront
Stephen Marche’s debut novel, Raymond and Hannah, is the kinda book you can breeze through in a few hours. It’s structured in modest little passages, which are footnoted/sidenoted with descriptive headings. The avant-garde structure was deemed frustrating by one reviewer, but TOist loved it.
The book eventually turned into a discussion of religion and identity that we lost interest in, but we were dazzled by the scenes set in Toronto, a city Marche paints up with equal parts melancholy, disregard and love. Marche also does his part to further the rumour that U of T’s Robards library is sinking softly into the earth, weighed down by books the architects forgot to account for for in the initial design.Tonight Marche reads alongside Jennifer Haigh and Rattawut Lapcharoensap at Harbourfront.