Fiction: Novels

Oil People

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

★ Cicada Summer

By Erica McKeen

Like Italo Calvino’s groundbreaking novel If On A Winter’s Night a Traveler, Erica McKeen’s Cicada Summer (her second book, following on Tear, winner of the 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction) embraces ... Read More »

June 19, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The War You Don’t Hate

By Blaise Ndala; Dimitri Nasrallah (trans.)

When two former rebel soldiers return to the Great Lakes region of Africa after the Second Congo War, their mission for truth takes on new meaning when they cross paths with a Canadian filmmaker who ... Read More »

May 22, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Hollow Beast

By Christophe Bernard; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

Christophe Bernard’s epic debut novel opens with what under any other circumstances would sound like a tall tale. In the last moments of the annual Gaspé diocese junior hockey tournament’s final game, the underdogs, a ... Read More »

May 8, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Behind You

By Catherine Hernandez

If you lived in or near Toronto in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you probably have some recollection of the Scarborough Rapist’s reign of terror. If you are a woman, its impact is likely ... Read More »

May 7, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Village Weavers

By Myriam J.A. Chancy

Myriam J.A. Chancy’s Village Weavers captures the origins, intersections, and ruptures of a lifelong friendship between Simone (Sisi) Val and Gertude (Gertie) Alcindor. The novel’s scope is ambitious, as it leaps between 1940s Port-au-Prince, 1970s ... Read More »

May 1, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Dayspring

By Anthony Oliveira

In his genre-bending debut novel, Dayspring, Toronto writer Anthony Oliveira has crafted a truly one-of-a-kind depiction of the life of Jesus Christ – reimagined from the perspective of the apostle John, described in the Bible ... Read More »

April 3, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Gift Child

By Elaine McCluskey

To explain the plot of Elaine McCluskey’s The Gift Child is both to give everything away and to reveal nothing important. Although the novel does, in the words of its narrator Harriett Swim, take us ... Read More »

March 20, 2024 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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