Mashups

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Sean Michaels was the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel Us Conductors.

With a truly imaginative structure, Alice Hoffman delves into what has become her trademark theme of magic.

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“Folding in on itself with its fantastical loop-de-loop narrative only to start anew, The Double Life of Benson Yu is a clever confection that isn’t shy about revealing the humanit

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“a different vampire story, one that reveals more than a little poignancy as it strips away the gothic glamor and shows that vampires are merely people in a changed form . . .”

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“A skillful blending of magic and mayhem, the supernatural with the mundane.

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“Meta-textual, self-reflexive, obscurely funny, and playful beyond easy articulation, it’s the perfect book for readers who delight in ‘the materiality of . . .

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What a strange and wonderful book this is. Mashup is a collection of stories, as the title indicates, based on famous first lines.