On Oct. 6, the Scotiabank Giller Prize will announce its shortlist. While we wait for the big reveal, here’s what Q&Q reviewers thought of the 12 contenders:
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- Arjun Basu, Waiting for the Man (ECW Press)
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- David Bezmozgis, The Betrayers (HarperCollins Canada)
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- Rivka Galchen, American Innovations (HarperCollins Canada)
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- Frances Itani, Tell (HarperCollins Canada)
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- Jennifer LoveGrove, Watch How We Walk (ECW Press)
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- Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (Random House Canada)
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- Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (Doubleday Canada)
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- Heather O’Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (HarperCollins Canada)
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- Kathy Page, Paradise and Elsewhere (John Metcalf Books/Biblioasis)
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- Claire Holden Rothman, My October (Penguin Canada)
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- Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows (Knopf Canada)
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- Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (Random House Canada)
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