André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His novel Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Alexis has worked extensively in radio and has hosted multiple shows with the CBC.

We’ve created a Book Club in a Bag for Fifteen Dogs—maybe you’d like to host your friends for an evening of talking about this “whimsical, dark and penetrating tour of ideas — about consciousness, time, belonging, mortality, art and love.”

You have a chance to see Andre Alexis in Wolfville on February 8 at Acadia University, as  part of the Authors@Acadia series.       

Visit the Authors@Acadia Facebook event for more info.

Win a bag of books by Andre Alexis, donated by Coach House Books. To enter: Alexis’ book Fifteen Dogs features talking dogs.  Tag us on Instagram or Twitter with #bookclub150, and tell us what you think a dog would say about the act of reading. You can also enter your answer on our Facebook contest, or fill out a ballot at your favourite AVRL branch. Entries must be received by midnight, February 28. Good luck!

Links our André Alexis collection. Click on one to visit www.valleylibrary.ca. Sign in with your AVRL library card, place a hold, and have a copy sent to the Valley Library of your choice.

Hidden Keys

Fifteen Dogs

Fifteen Dogs (Book Club in a Bag)

Pastoral

Ingrid and the Wolf