AsylumBy: Andre Alexis Alexiss long awaited second novel follows his award winning Childhood. Set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years, Asylum is Andr Alexiss sweeping, edged in satire, yet deeply serious tale of intertwined lives and fortunes, of politics and vain ambition, of the building of a magnificent prison, of human fallibility, of the search for refuge, of the impossibility of love, and of finding home. Whether he is taking us into the machinations