xanax cowboy, hannah green

House of Anansi, 2023

Brimming with verve, wit and bravado, Hannah Green’s Xanax Cowboy is a brain-jolting joy. Reading it felt almost like watching a live performance, one in which our equally tender-hearted and kick-ass heroine, the Xanax Cowboy, rides through modern frontiers, teetering dangerously in the saddle. I love this book. And almost every page contains a line I wish I’d written.

—Elyse Friedman, Toronto