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Inside
Inside | Alix Ohlin
2 posts | 5 read | 2 to read
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and selected as an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick, an Amazon.ca Best Book, and an iTunes Store Best Book When Grace, a highly competent and devoted therapist in Montreal, stumbles across a man in the snowy woods who has failed to hang himself, her instinct to help immediately kicks in. Before long, however, she realizes that her feelings for this charismatic, extremely guarded stranger are far from straightforward. At the same time, her troubled teenage patient, Annie, runs away and soon will reinvent herself in New York as an aspiring and ruthless actress, as unencumbered as humanly possible by any personal attachments. And Mitch, Grace's ex-husband, a therapist as well, leaves the woman he's desperately in love with to attend to a struggling native community in the bleak Arctic. We follow these four compelling, complex characters from Montreal and New York to Hollywood and Rwanda, each of them with a consciousness that is utterly distinct and urgently convincing. With a razor-sharp emotional intelligence, Inside poignantly explores the manifold dangers and imperatives of making ourselves available to, and indeed responsible for, those dearest to us.
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Anna40
Inside | Alix Ohlin
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Mehso-so

This started out so strong&then… the plot is like a bouncy ball,the characters actions don‘t really make sense except Annie/Anne maybe.Why does Mitch leave the love of his life to work in an indigenous community?Why does Grace act unprofessionally& why do Annie‘s parents not sue her?What is going on btw Grace&Mitch?I guess the underlying theme is:can we support one another,trust&let someone in?hence the title Inside?but I don‘t know.Not4me.

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JoyNorstrom
Inside | Alix Ohlin
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Pickpick

This recommendation has been sitting by my bedside table for months. I‘m not sure what I was waiting for...perhaps cold weather to match the cover or the perfect space in my tbr pile. ‘Inside‘ is beautifully written, has a cast of captivating characters and a list of unique settings: Iqaluit, Kigali, Montreal, Edinburgh, New York. Two thumbs up for the author‘s ability to weave time and place.