Despair and Other Stories of OttawaBy: Andre Alexis These eight stories reveal a world thats both recognizable and strange: cities of anxiety and violence, where quiet inhabitants lead outwardly banal lives that conceal sinister interiors. The premises, both fantastic and surreal, are also eerily plausible; they often follow the logic of dreams where the real can appear in disguise. Though geographically rooted, the setting from Ottawa to Toronto and the South of France take on an