Fiction: Novels

What She Can Remember

Singer-songwriter Donna Dunlop’s first novel, What She Can Remember reads more like a personal memoir than a work of fiction. Set in the mid- to late 1960s and written in both past and present tense, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Family Man

By Stephen Zeifman

Casey is a guy who seems to have it all: a successful Toronto architecture practice; a smart, lovely wife; a lively teenage daughter; and two fine sons. Why isn’t Casey happy? He’s not sure, but ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask

By Jim Munroe

In his first novel, 26-year-old Jim Munroe has created a genuinely hip, young, and urban tale. Forget about all the other fiction that poses as slick and cool, forget the stylish authors that promise to ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Cargo of Orchids

By Susan Musgrave

Susan Musgrave’s first novel in over 10 years has everything her readers might expect from her: rich, lyrical language, bizarre imagery, and an intimate familiarity with the state-sanctioned indignities inflicted on prison inmates. Musgrave’s anonymous ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Fit Month for Dying

By M.T. Dohaney

From page one, A Fit Month for Dying, the final novel in a trilogy chronicling the trials of the Corrigan family, promises heartbreak. “Sooner or later life’ll break the heart of ye,” warns Bertha Corrigan, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Charisma

By Margaret Christakos

How do you like your sex? In Charisma, first-time novelist Margaret Christakos fills the pages with detailed and rather poetic descriptions of sex between women and women, men and women, men and men – with ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall

By Ken Sparling

Ken Sparling, a Toronto writer in his mid-thirties and fiction editor at Gutter Press has written a quirky anti-novel that both engages and frustrates the reader. In Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Thing My Father Gave Me

By Ernest Hekkanen

Ernest Hekkanen’s large body of work – he is the author of more than a dozen books including novels, poetry, and non-fiction – has been largely overlooked by the literary mainstream. This is partly because ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Bite the Stars

By Eliza Clark

For a populist form, country music is not to everyone’s taste. Its smooth and stylized emotions can seem a world away from the unvarnished pain of the blues. But once in a rare while, a ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Get on Top

By David Homel

David Homel has delivered unto us a novel-length parable of sex, violence, sin, and a dusty old Jewish prophet-peddler’s wish to reveal the Messiah. The Messiah in this novel is Sabbitha Hunter, an 18-year-old blond ... Read More »

February 13, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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