Maisonneuve Magazine Includes Monoceros in its 2011 Year-End List

Maisonneuve Magazine has chosen Suzette Mayr's Monoceros as one of the best novels of 2011 for its lyricism, formal complexity, charm and grit.

'Monoceros is a novel about a gay kid in Calgary who offs himself, narrated by the people left behind who are affected by his suicide. But it’s far from sentimental or melodramatic; it’s actually very funny and weird, in the best ways possible. Monoceros is beautifully written, using an interesting structure and a layered, imaginative narrative style. The characters are just awful and lovely in their awfulness. It’s also full of honest-to-god nerds—not beautiful hipsters in nerd glasses, but sci-fi geeks, a closeted principal, an outcast obsessed with unicorns. Mayr is very innovative and takes a lot of risks, and for that reason her book stayed with me for a long time.'

- Zoe Whittall

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