From a New York Times appraisal by Randy Boyagoda headlined “Joe Fosse’s Books Seek and Find the Divine”:

Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and professor of English at the University of Toronto.

At a dinner party this winter in Toronto, when a table-wide silence descended, I tried to fill it by asking what everyone was reading. A colleague snorted and pointed out that any time people ask that question, what they’re really doing is waiting to announce what they are reading. I was offended because she was right.