He’s promised to tell me if I get it right one day. We both think it’s funny, but he’s also shy and I think it embarrasses him, which is one of the reasons I do it. I have a running joke: every time I see the initial I take a stab at what it stands for. His credit card discloses only his first initial, G. I have about twenty regulars, and I’m on a first-name basis with them, but Mr.

I’ve been here for two years now, but it’s sped by.

I watched him from my perspective in Fiction as he chose an aisle and went down it. I was alone in the store, shelving books and humming along to Radio 2. My doppelganger problems began one afternoon in early April. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Unless Jean stops her, she and everyone she cares about will face a fate much stranger than death. But when some of them start disappearing, she fears her alleged double has a sinister agenda. A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrants-the regulars of Bellevue Square-are eager to contribute to Jean's investigation. With the aid of a small army of locals who hang around in the park, she expands her surveillance, making it known she'll pay for information or sightings.

Although she sees no one who looks like her, it only takes a few visits to the park for her to become obsessed with the possibility of encountering her twin in the flesh. She begins at the crossroads of Kensington Market: a city park called Bellevue Square. But after two customers insist they've seen her double, Jean decides to investigate. Jean's a grown woman with a husband and two kids, as well as a thriving bookstore in downtown Toronto, and she doesn't rattle easily-not like she used to. Apparently, her identical twin hangs out in Kensington Market, where she sometimes buys churros and drags an empty shopping cart down the streets, like she's looking for something to put in it. She's never seen her, but others swear they have. From Giller Prize-winning author Michael Redhill comes a literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity-and then her life-when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park.

Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill