All fall long, any mention of books included Michael Crummey’s Galore. The most recent praise? Just shortly after being shortlisted for the GG award for fiction, it was picked as an Amazon.com book of the year in both the editor’s picks category and the reader’s choice category.

Moreover, this week, The National Post’s Mark Medley declared it “One of the best books of the decade!”

I read in an interview with Crummey on Galore, just after it came out. He said something along the lines of “This will either be my best received book or the opposite.” Here’s Steven Galloway’s response to that, as written in the Globe and Mail, “His two previous novels, River Thieves and The Wreckage, were critical successes and national bestsellers, and deservedly so. They were very good books and I enjoyed them immensely. Galore blows them out of the water.”

I’m glad it went the way it did for him. Galore is unquestionably one of the best received Canadian novels of the year.