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In this masterful, long-awaited novel, Mark Anthony Jarman unsettles the American Wild West. "Go West, Boy." The unnamed hero of Mark Anthony Jarman's "The Wild West" responds to the call, becoming a pawn of Custer, Reel, or whoever holds the reins of the immense power and hidden motives that rage between Assiniboia and Montana in the 1880s. Hungry and eager, our hero fights, digs graves, cuts ice, and does anything required in exchange for proper shoes, a meal, and a drink that encourages him to pursue the strange woman, or perhaps the inner woman, avoid the gallows, and try not to lose his mind. Jarman pulls the past out of its folds and thrusts it in our faces. Brutality and creeping madness pulse in every sentence. "The Wild West" introduces us to the unsettling subconscious of a chaotic new region, illuminating both then and now. There you have it, the great Canadian novel, and it will make you wonder what a “Canadian” even is.