Andrew Kaufman's sweet and serious second novel follows three protagonists: Rebecca, a woman whose emotions are felt by people around her; Lewis, a rock star who's just lost his wife; and Aberystwyth, an amphibious frog-woman driving across Canada in a stolen Honda Civic. The loss of Lewis's wife, who was also Rebecca's sister, is the catalyst that tips both Lewis and Rebecca into soul-searching journeys. Lewis goes to Winnipeg; Rebecca goes to the storage locker where she keeps the belongings that hold all of her most emotional moments. And before they part, they nearly collide with Aby, who has not yet totally figured out how to drive her car. What follows is a wonderful mixture of the surreal and the perfectly grounded. The Canada of this book is precisely delineated, with exact distances in kilometres. The characters stay in real hotels and drive past recognizable landmarks. The reader is also treated to descriptions of Aby's religion, the boat Rebecca's ex-husband builds in the middle of the Prairies, and the objects Rebecca uses like genie-bottles to siphon off and contain her emotions. As with Kaufman's excellent debut, All My Friends Are Superheroes, the whimsical concepts are offset by an emotional truthfulness that leaves the reader aching but smiling.