Half-known Lives

It’s always entertaining for women to speculate about how differently the world might be ordered if men could get pregnant. Child care could become a public policy priority; there would certainly be shifts in the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Rocket Science

By Julia Gaunce

In her first novel, Toronto writer Julia Gaunce leaps nimbly from idea to turn of phrase, using subtle wordplay to delineate her quirky characters’ quirky world. To say that Rocket Science tells the story of ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The City of Yes

By Peter Oliva

Peter Oliva’s second novel, The City of Yes, is not so much one story as it is several individual tales, each threading seamlessly through the others in a meditation on storytelling itself. Set mainly in ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fits Like a Rubber Dress

By Roxane Ward

Roxane Ward’s debut novel has the trappings of a provocative story – there’s the teasing title and tastefully erotic cover – but the reality of this tale of one woman’s foray into Toronto’s underground is ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Jane

By Judy MacDonald

Judy MacDonald is such a flawless mimic of teenaged voices that this novel feels channelled, as if a group of ghostly high school students had started fooling around with a tape recorder in someone’s bedroom, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Open Arms

By Marina Endicott

Bessie Smith, the narrator of Open Arms, the first novel by Saskatchewan writer and playwright Marina Endicott, is a young woman with some troubling role models. Her father, an award-winning poet, left her and her ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Jasmine Man

By Lola Lemire Tostevin

Writers like Lola Lemire Tostevin resist the ordinary and predictable in sentences and plots. While she hasn’t sold a zillion books, Tostevin has enjoyed a fine reputation as a thinking, feeling, inventive crafter of fiction ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Louder than the Sea

By Wayne Bartlett

In his other incarnation, Newfoundland singer-songwriter Wayne Bartlett’s most popular song chronicles the closure of the Newfoundland fishery. In Louder than the Sea, his first novel, he tackles similarly political subjects: the necessity of the ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Dagmar’s Daughter

By Kim Echlin

In many ways, Kim Echlin’s second novel continues the themes of her first: Elephant Winter set the progress of a mother’s death against the incongruous backdrop of elephants in an Ontario winter. In that book ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Flying in Silence

By Gerry Turcotte

Like so many novels of childhood, Flying in Silence is structured like a contemporary Odyssey – only in reverse. Where Ulysses confronts miracles and monsters on a voyage to his elusive homeland, today’s hero is ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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