Title: Somebody nobody anybody
Description: "Alan Blum's concerns are dramatized in the surreal narrative his novel Somebody Nobody Anybody: When the Cows Come Home. He inverts the genre of magical realism that injects fiction and fantasy into a realistic tale as a way of showing how life needs magic, by showing alternatively that magic needs a dose of the Real to deal with life. A beleaguered professor decides to study hatred by doing research on the Anti-Hate unit of the Toronto Police Force. After becoming entangled in the cliche s governing public opinion about what is inoffensive rather than meaningful, the professor is himself accused and tried of a hate crime."--