Currently shortlisted for both the Winterset Award and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, Come, Thou Tortoise just won The National Post’s Canada Also Reads Competition securing close to 50% of the votes! Jessica Grant is on a role, and so fully deserves to be. In a world of books like other books, even the greatest books are re-hashings of the same old same old. But not Jessica Grant’s books. She’s an authentic, original voice and well on her way to being an eternal name in Canadian literature. 

If you haven’t read this book, I hope that first paragraph has you considering your mishap. If you have read this book, and loved it as much as Salty Ink did, I demand you go get her collection of short fiction Making Light of Tragedy. It’s one of those books you don’t want to end, because you know it will be a long time before you enjoy something quite so much. Unique and original are over-used adjectives, and yet in Grant’s case, don’t quite do her justice …