Fiction: Novels

Second Place

Like much of Rachel Cusk’s writing, Second Place feels more like a conduit for philosophical and cultural thought than mere storytelling. Told in the first person, Cusk’s 11th work of fiction recounts a summer in ... Read More »

April 19, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Foregone

By Russell Banks

Midway through Foregone, the latest novel from Russell Banks, the main character recalls a woman who published a memoir titled My Autobiography as I Remember It. Banks’s protagonist, a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker named Leonard Fife, ... Read More »

April 12, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Charity

By Keath Fraser

Is there a more misunderstood or neglected literary form than the novella? Even more than poetry or short fiction, the novella tends to get overlooked by readers and publishers alike, neither seeming to know quite ... Read More »

March 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Girls Are All So Nice Here

By Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Ambrosia Wellington, the protagonist of Laurie Elizabeth Flynn’s first thriller for adult readers, discovers that packing away her high-school identity before college isn’t as easy as changing her style of jeans. An aspiring actor, Ambrosia ... Read More »

March 11, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy

By Gary Barwin

Can one write a humorous book that grapples with the Holocaust? Gary Barwin has the chutzpah to pull it off, for the most part, in his second novel. Readers who enjoyed the verbal pyrotechnics and ... Read More »

March 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Brief View from the Coastal Suite

By Karen Hofmann

Karen Hofmann’s novels deserve a place on the shelves of discerning readers across the country. Her 2014 debut, After Alice, was a gorgeous evocation of the Okanagan Valley, which she followed with 2017’s What Is ... Read More »

March 4, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Return of the Trickster

By Eden Robinson

Spiritual beings, extraordinary powers, and jokes about Frozen are unleashed with abandon in the third and final instalment of Eden Robinson’s groundbreaking Trickster saga. After the first books dawdled through the set-up, this book gleefully ... Read More »

March 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Annie and the Wolves

By Andromeda Romano Lax

The new novel from Vancouver Island writer Andromeda Romano-Lax, begins with something of a familiar premise: a struggling academic comes into possession of previously unknown archival materials relating to her subject of study, with life-changing ... Read More »

February 25, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Gutter Child

By Jael Richardson

The debut novel by Brampton, Ontario, author Jael Richardson – founder of the Festival of Literary Diversity and author of the memoir The Stone Thrower – is an outstanding and fearless story that follows a ... Read More »

February 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Kill the Mall

By Pasha Malla

Pasha Malla’s third novel opens with a love letter in which the unnamed narrator expresses his undying affection for the “remarkable institution” that is the local mall. He is applying for a residency program at ... Read More »

February 4, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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