If I was Mavis Gallant
I'd want a champion like Lisa Moore.
If you missed listening on the radio to the CBC Radio CANADA READS session of debates for this year they have podcasts, blogs and no end of comment flying on the Canada Reads website.
If you want to cast your own vote for which of the five books you think stands above the rest they also offer that consolation until midnight tonight I think it is.
Check it out.
And then check out Mavis Gallant and Lisa Moore.