![]() ![]() She knows herself (“I can pass a whole day in front of bookshelves alphabetizing, categorizing, subcategorizing. Jean has been residing for just two years in contemporary Toronto, where she’s still decoding the city’s “deep well of weirdness.” She owns a bookstore called Bookshop (“I do subtlety in other areas of my life”) in a gentrifying neighbourhood. She appears likeable, stable, and observant – a quirky someone you could meet at a party and keep finding ways to revisit for further conversation. At a glance, Jean’s anything but unhinged. ![]() Although there’s abundant foreboding in the narrator’s first utterance – “My doppelganger problems began one afternoon in early April” – the atmosphere is pleasant, comfortable, and almost lighthearted. As witnesses and vicarious participants, readers can appreciate Jean’s otherworldly predicaments, though they might experience greater bafflement than she does. ![]() ![]() With Bellevue Square, the first panel of a projected triptych titled Modern Ghosts, Michael Redhill puts his protagonist, Jean Mason, through wringer after wringer. ![]()
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