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Of Carnivores and Hurricanes, A Conversation with Mark Sinnett
Detail of the cover of The Carnivore, mirrored.
On October 15, 1954, Hurricane Hazel struck the already rain-drenched towns and cities of Southern Ontario, killing eighty-one people (most of them in Toronto) and causing, in today’s dollars, $1.1 billion in damages. The now iconic storm serves as a backdrop and narrative catalyst for Mark Sinnett’s novel The Carnivore, one of five books nominated for this year’s Toronto Book Awards, which will be handed out on October 14. The novel is told by the voices of a long-married couple both obsessing over the night of the storm, during which the husband, a young police officer, may or may not have committed an act of heroism that makes the front pages of Toronto’s newspapers.
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