Ferguson, long fascinated by con-artistry, mixes comic scenes with serious questions: Is faith simply a seizure in the temporal lobe? But for me, The Shoe on the Roof , his newest (and 17th) release, isn’t that book. He also seems to have borrowed his characters’ surnames from real-life psychologists including Aaron Rosanoff and James Lamiell. The shoe of the title refers to the actual 1977 case where a Seattle patient, claiming to have floated above the hospital during surgery, accurately described a blue tennis shoe on the roof. The novel’s setting is Boston but there’s none of the travel writing that Ferguson can do so beautifully.

Source: thestar December 08, 2017 11:26 UTC