I Hear Voices by Jason Dean Spence is the story of Trevor Sharp coming to terms with the otherness of being a person of colour living with mental illness in Toronto. Preoccupied with Canadian culture and history and public radio broadcasting, Trevor begins to see himself as a metonym, not only for Black Canadian experience, but for Canadian experience in general. Manipulated by forces he can’t see, and literally uncomfortable in his own skin, Trevor’s story becomes Canada’s story.
