Calgary Public Library

Three years with the rat, by Jay Hosking

eng

other

Three years with the rat

by Jay Hosking

After several years of drifting, a young man returns home, drawn by his beloved older sister, Grace. Always smart and charismatic even when she was rebelling, and always his hero, now she is a promising graduate student in psychophysics. But it soon becomes clear that things are not well with Grace. Always acerbic, she now veers into sudden rages that are increasingly directed at her adoring boyfriend, John, who is also her fellow researcher. When Grace disappears, and John shortly thereafter, the narrator makes an astonishing discovery in their apartment: a box big enough to crawl inside, a lab rat, and a note that says This is the only way back for us. He embarks on a mission to discover the truth, a pursuit that forces him to question time and space itself, and ultimately toward a perilous confrontation at the very limits of imagination. 2016

specialized