Fiction: Novels

You Made Me Love You

Sophomore novelist Joanna Goodman has written an eminently readable piece of women’s fiction about three sisters facing life-altering decisions that feels, in spirit, like a cross between Four Weddings and a Funeral and Hannah and ... Read More »

June 20, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon

By Nicole Brossard, Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, trans.

Quebec novelist Nicole Brossard clearly enjoys playing games with her readers. In her last novel, Baroque at Dawn, she had a character who wrote in English named Nicole Brossard, and it was never clear just ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Water, Inc.

By Varda Burstyn

Bourne-like, some thrillers deliver lots of action but very little plausibility – we love the suspense, but never quite believe that we’ll be encountering amnesiac special agents or colourful computer hackers anytime soon. Other thrillers ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Nettle Spinner

By Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

The Nettle Spinner weaves the story of one woman’s fictional journey through the aftermath of sexual violence and an unwanted pregnancy. The title is taken from a fable of a young girl who seeks her ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nelcott Is My Darling

By Golda Fried

Alice is a 19-year-old classic film junkie who’s been sent down the rabbit hole to adulthood via McGill University in Montreal. She’s studying Arts, to her parents’ dismay. She’s shy and has difficulty knowing whom ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cold Dark Matter

By Alex Brett

Publishers often promote new mysteries on the strength of the unique, quirky vocations of their protagonists. There are dog-groomer detectives and mysteries featuring caterers, couriers, and clowns. But only a Canadian writer would base a ... Read More »

June 14, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Luck

By Joan Barfoot

Joan Barfoot’s 10th novel, like her ninth, Critical Injuries, begins with a cataclysmic event: in this case, the death of a husband. The death happens without warning. Philip Lawrence, a hale and hearty master wood ... Read More »

June 13, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Best Way You Know How

By Christine Pountney

Here’s Hannah Crowe, that peculiar type of Canadian who moves to London to fix her life and find fulfillment by marrying a British man. Where does this impulse come from? The call of the floppy ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Pale Indian

By Robert Arthur Alexie

Adding to the genre of shameful histories of white exploitation of the Canadian native population, The Pale Indian is a fictionalized account of a Northwest Territories aboriginal community that has seen its share of racism, ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Blind Crescent

By Michelle Berry

Suburb-lit is one of those classically American phenomena, like jazz or drive-through churches. From Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt to Updike’s Rabbit to Carver’s cavalcade of losers, the suburbs have been a mainstay of the American literary ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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