Lost in September

Winter's decision to let a homeless man's PTSD echo across centuries through the consciousness of General Wolfe is a formally daring move, and she pulls it off with real compassion and control — the Governor General's Award shortlisting is well-deserved. The novel is slim and elliptical, which will frustrate readers looking for conventional plot momentum, but for those willing to let it work on its own terms it's quietly devastating. A rare literary treatment of war trauma that manages to feel both historically grounded and urgently contemporary.