Deliverance by Dog Roaming the Multiverse: Review of Andrea Hairston’s The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays

Bruce J. Krajewski Under Review:The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays. Andrea Hairston. Tor, May 2026. Start with two women turning up dead (both murdered) “in this necklace of picturesque New England towns around the university.” Now, imagine a dimension-jumping dog detective assisted by a cleaner-turned-detective who takes a bus to work—a bus filled with opinionated characters, one of whom might be the killer. Add a sapphic romance, appeals for Indigenous science, a “Redemption Center” that looks like a haunted mansion where the meaning of salvation unfolds, and you now have some sense of the journey you’ll be on while reading Andrea Hairston’s The Redemption Center Is Closed On Sundays. Hairston describes the Center as a “multiverse hub,” a place where “all of these people go every week to be in a place where you’re not in the built world. You’re in this world that was made by the trees and the animals and the storms.” The Center turns into a community space. The opening line…