The Record reviews A Week of This
The title of Toronto author Nathan Whitlock's debut novel grounds us firmly in the quotidian. A week is an economic unit, the work week that defines the lives of the employed and which used to give a special meaning to the weekend. Each week is pretty much the same as any other.
There is no cycle, they simply repeat. As for the "this" . . . well, you know. The anagram suggests itself: A week of the same crap with seven different labels.
Manda, the novel's central character, is aware of this at least on a subconscious level: