Summer Burns

Hot summer nights. Parties. Small town Ontario. Drugs and alcohol. Waitressing. Hitchhiking. Best friends. Nicknames. This is Mary Jo Pollak’s first novel, Summer Burns. Living in the 1970s – where freedom mixes with drug dependency, ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sulha

By Malka Marom

To read Sulha’s 566 pages is to undertake a long, intense journey that pushes us to see the world through different eyes. Singer and documentary producer Malka Marom’s debut sets us down in Israel in ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lilac in Leather

By Sarah Murphy

Recently, American essayist Wendy Steiner characterized contemporary female fiction as being “rich in imagery and emotion, consumed by the desire to recover a lost or hidden past.” Sarah Murphy’s Lilac in Leather doesn’t stray far ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mouthing the Words

By Camilla Gibb

Thelma Barley, the narrator of Toronto writer Camilla Gibb’s first novel, Mouthing the Words, survives childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her father and the emotional bludgeoning of her vain, capricious mother to become ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chasing Safiya

By Ken McGoogan

There are few true heroes to lead us boldly into the next millennium. Perhaps it’s because we’ve realized that in spite of this looming event, we still have to get on with our daily lives. ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Amriika

By M.G. Vassanji

The strength of M.G. Vassanji’s new novel, his first since 1994’s The Book of Secrets, is that it has the urgency of television news. That is its fatal weakness too, for like television news, it ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Weird Sister

By Kate Pullinger

Unlike trashy films and television shows, which may at least offer inadvertent humour or cautionary insight into plastic surgery, escapist fiction is often dull. The novels of Harold Robbins, Judith Krantz, or Jackie Collins make ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ten Good Seconds of Silence

By Elizabeth Ruth

Lilith Boot, a clairvoyant child-finder, is at the centre of Ten Good Seconds of Silence, a first novel that employs memory, perception, and identity as its central metaphors. As a detective for the Metropolitan Toronto ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tracing Iris

By Genni Gunn

Kate Mason, the central character in Vancouver author Genni Gunn’s third novel, Tracing Iris, has a life even the worst-off won’t envy. Abandoned at an early age by her mother, Kate’s spent the majority of ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rousseau’s Garden

By Ann Charney

Elegant and cosmopolitan, Ann Charney’s Rousseau’s Garden, is a novel of mid-life preoccupations. Claire, a Montreal photographer, has recently married Adrian, an art historian, their tasteful match cemented by a close physical relationship. But if ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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