Book review: Keith Malliard's Twin Studies displays a lyrical beauty

Twin Studies
By Keith Maillard (Freehand Books, Calgary, 2018)
$24.95 | 574 pp.Remember when people used to argue about who had written the Great American Novel? In an age before post-post-modernism, virtual reality and Netflix binging, it was a serious debate, and suggested that the novel was a high form of art, sturdy enough to bear an entire national identity, and that we could somehow find a consensus about who had written one.
Let me suggest, perhaps perversely, that a great American novel