Fiction: Novels

★ White World

Saad T. Farooqi’s debut novel White World starts right in the middle of the action – with his protagonist, Avaan, running with a gun in his hand, in a dystopian Pakistan engulfed in a civil ... Read More »

October 9, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Keep

By Jenny Haysom

Eventually, whether before a move or after a loss, we all have to make difficult decisions about what stays and what goes. Jenny Haysom’s debut novel Keep begins with a literal version of this challenging ... Read More »

October 2, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ What I Know About You

By Éric Chacour; Pablo Strauss (trans.)

When a novel receives multiple international awards and accolades in its original language it’s difficult not to approach the English translation with a combination of trepidation and high expectation. Will the book meet the high ... Read More »

September 25, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Juiceboxers

By Benjamin Hertwig

When readers first meet Plinko, the focal character of Edmonton writer Benjamin Hertwig’s harrowing and powerful debut novel, Juiceboxers, it is 1999 and he is 16 years old, a fan of The Lord of the ... Read More »

September 18, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim

By Jacob Wren

A Jacob Wren novel is known for several things: narrators undergoing neurotic self-interrogation, a consideration of the gap between theory and practice, and a certain metafictional flair when it comes to signalling the work’s own ... Read More »

September 18, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Capital of Dreams

By Heather O’Neill

Fourteen-year-old Sofia Bottom has found herself alone due to the war that has come to her homeland. Elysia, a small European country, was once a vibrant, sensual, otherworldly place – where the arts flourished and ... Read More »

September 11, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Songs for the Brokenhearted

By Ayelet Tsabari

Ayelet Tsabari’s Songs for the Brokenhearted begins with Zohara Haddad returning to Israel in 1995 for her mother Saida’s funeral. Zohara has been living in New York, where she is a graduate student at NYU, ... Read More »

September 4, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Oil People

By David Huebert

At heart, Oil People is a story about adolescence – its volatility and uncertainties, the questions and intense learning curve. David Huebert’s debut novel stars Jade Armbruster, who is soon to be 14 and resides in a ... Read More »

August 14, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Stasio

By Tamas Dobozy

Stasio, the brilliant and powerful new novel from prize-winning writer Tamas Dobozy (Siege 13, Ghost Geographies), opens with bloodshed. “The children were killed first,” the novel begins, with a brutal understatement that characterizes the book. ... Read More »

July 24, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Lost Tarot

By Sarah Henstra

“I didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse,” said the British-Mexican 20th-century surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington. “I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.” As a statement ... Read More »

June 26, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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