| It gives the story a slight metafictional spin, bouncing between blatant product placement and mockumentary. |
| When we evaluate the characters and their actions, are our evaluations helped or hindered by the novel's literary devices and its metafictional play? |
| Columbus's becalmed caravels, slowly pushed backward by the Caribbean seaweed, become a metafictional metaphor for the dialogic reconstruction of Columbus's complete life. |
| Munro's original idea for the manuscript was a group of metafictional short stories involving two protagonists. |
| Admirers will likely enjoy this insouciant, mildly metafictional novel, but others may be disappointed by its antiquated views and seeming purposelessness. |
