In his book of connected stories, Quebec writer John Lavery concentrates, for the most part, on the myriad trivialities that constitute the lives of police officers and criminals, and ends up with one of the year’s weightiest and most ambitious works of fiction. You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off is a linked collection, and it’s often the reviewer’s quandary to concentrate on individual stories or the arc of the whole. As strong as both elements are in Kwanievski, it’s Lavery’s style that conquers all.