Off in All Directions

Since audiobook listeners, without book in hand, can’t see the maps of Sylvie’s lives interspersed throughout the novel, here’s one such map.

 
If Sylvie Had Nine Lives folds and unfolds connections, choices, fates and futures. Sylvie’s possible lives are observed with an astonishing acuteness of vision that moves beyond the specific experience of Saskatchewan to the specific experience of the reader and shears the soul ….
— Jury citation, John V Hicks Award