Fiction: Novels

Daughters of the Deer

In her debut novel for adults, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award–winning children’s author Danielle Daniel mines her family history to tell an affecting and difficult story of colonialism, love, loss, and resilience based on two ... Read More »

March 14, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

My Two-Faced Luck

By Brett Josef Grubisic

“Fifty-nine-year-old homosexual found guilty of murdering an elderly widow at sea on a cruise ship.” This snippet from a criminology reference text provides a starting point for the novel My Two-Faced Luck, Brett Josef Grubisic’s ... Read More »

February 22, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Troupers

By Richard Scarsbrook

In his 2020 volume On Nostalgia, David Berry points out that the Greek root of “nostalgia” refers to a condition resembling homesickness or, more literally, a pain associated with home. This is particularly germane to ... Read More »

February 16, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Letters to Amelia

By Lindsay Zier-Vogel

This debut novel by Lindsay Zier-Vogel begins with a breakup that’s as bewildering as it is agonizing. Grace Porter, a library technician at the University of Toronto, has built what seems to be a predictable ... Read More »

February 9, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blue-Skinned Gods

By SJ Sindu

Stories of deceit and exploitation perpetuated with the help of blind faith abound, each more confounding than the last. In 2015, it came to light that a self-styled Indian godman had convinced 400 male followers ... Read More »

February 8, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Beautiful Place

By Lee Gowan

The wry narrator of Margaret Atwood’s short story “Happy Endings” downgrades plot to “just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.” Well, maybe. But the number of whats and the ... Read More »

January 31, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tenderness

By Alison MacLeod

Tenderness, the sixth book by Alison MacLeod, is a dizzyingly researched historical novel that moves from England during the First World War to the U.S. and the U.K. in 1959 and 1960. At its heart ... Read More »

January 19, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By Kim Fu

Kim Fu has always revealed a distinct creative vision. Her books – including For Today I Am a Boy, winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction – are marvels of craftsmanship and daring. ... Read More »

January 17, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ When We Lost Our Heads

By Heather O'Neill

In 1967, when Australian author Joan Lindsay’s now-iconic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock was first released, many readers were convinced that her story about a group of female boarding school students who go missing on ... Read More »

January 7, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Good Name

By Yejide Kilanko

Yejide Kilanko’s intimate cross-section of a marriage in A Good Name not only investigates cultural expectations and familial duties but also homes in on the realities of immigrant life in America. After 12 gruelling years ... Read More »

December 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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