In Here Comes the Dog, Omar Musa's novel follows Solomon, a once-promising basketball prospect whose career and ambitions have been quietly derailed by chronic fatigue syndrome. His younger half-brother, Jimmy, who is searching for an identity of his own, while their Macedonian-Australian friend Aleks channels his fierce loyalty into dangerous, unpredictable outbursts of anger. Told through a striking hybrid of traditional prose and hip-hop poetry, the novel follows the trio as they use graffiti and rhymes to navigate their marginalized realities.
