The prickly fruit is everywhere in this flat Southwestern Ontario town, clinging to socks and sleeves and hair. “Unlike unassuming Paris, or the nearly village of Dublin, Burr lives up to its name.
They portray a middling town that might view Alice Munro’s Jubilee and Robertson Davies’ Salterton as literary ancestors: Now and then, though, chapters titled “Burr” appear. In chapters that typically focus on one of three characters, Lockyer introduces serious plights and traces her protagonists’ unique, quite wrong-headed approaches to becoming unburdened. In a charming and appealingly atmospheric debut novel, Toronto’s Brooke Lockyer looks back a few decades and travels about three hours southwest.
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