The Matter with Morris

An “immaculately written, trenchantly honest, hugely compelling” novel from the Giller Prize–winning author of Stranger ( Globe and Mail ). When Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, surveys his life over the past year, he sees disaster everywhere. His son has just been killed in Afghanistan, and his newspaper has put him on indefinite leave; his psychiatrist wife, Lucille, seems headed for the door; he is strongly attracted to Ursula, the wife of a dairy farmer from Minnesota; and his