The Innocents

The Book of Genesis meets “Hansel and Gretel” by way of Flowers in the Attic: that would not be an inappropriate way to situate Michael Crummey’s new novel, a return to historical fiction following 2014’s ... Read More »

August 22, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

One Small Sacrifice

By Hilary Davidson

The new novel from Toronto-born thriller writer Hilary Davidson starts with a bang: “When he heard the gunshot, Alex Traynor threw himself face first onto the pavement.” While this incident turns out to be Traynor ... Read More »

July 18, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Youth of God

By Hassan Ghedi Santur

Hassan Ghedi Santur’s novel The Youth of God is a heart-stopping story that traces the life of Nuur, a teenager growing up in a Somali neighbourhood of Toronto. This is also a story about Mr. ... Read More »

July 18, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fog

By Rana Bose

James M. Cain was once quoted as saying he wanted to write about “the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country.” It seems Montreal-based ... Read More »

July 15, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Bunny

By Mona Awad

Mona Awad’s Bunny is gripping, frenetically readable, and bewilderingly erotic. In this exploration of how women’s repressed rage and desires can manifest, Awad weaponizes cuteness in a ferocious and dynamic way. The author’s second novel ... Read More »

July 15, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Copperhead

By Alexi Zentner

Jessup is a high-school senior in upstate New York who has bucked the odds – single mom, no money, trailer-park home – to earn himself a potential Ivy League football scholarship and all that implies. ... Read More »

July 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Hideaway

By Nicole Lundrigan

Things are not okay in the Janes house. Patriarch Telly has moved out to live with another woman, leaving 13-year-old Rowan and seven-year-old Maisy in the care of their mom. Gloria, the matriarch, is at ... Read More »

July 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Dream Sequence

By Adam Foulds

Two spare, world-spanning new novels by gifted prose stylists plumb the themes of love, death, and desire. Set on airplanes, in lonely flats, houses, and hotels, Turbulence by David Szalay and Dream Sequence by Adam ... Read More »

June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Turbulence

By David Szalay

June 17, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Found Drowned

By Laurie Glenn Norris

Early in Laurie Glenn Norris’s new novel – which is based on a real murder – 16-year-old Mary Harney, her brother and sister, and her mother, Ann, travel home after a visit to Ann’s family. ... Read More »

June 13, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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