Day of the Dog-tooth Violets

The list of chapter titles in Ontario writer Christina Kilbourne’s debut novel reads like a poem: “Salted Fish, Smoked Fish, Pickled Fish”; “A Successful Excursion”; “Bad Eyes, A Son for Hamar.” That poetic sensibility carries ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cold Fear

By Rick Mofina

When 10-year-old Paige Baker wanders off a camping trail to look for her dog, she has no idea of the danger she’s put herself in. Her parents, Doug and Emily, are so wrapped up in ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Making a Killing

By Warren Dunford

The relatively recent fad for irony – its use and misuse – can make it hard to know how to read some fiction. Like equally tricky efforts to be satirical, sometimes irony is evident, delicious, ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ditch

By Hal Niedzviecki

Voice is visceral, it’s of the guts, whereas the daily tinkering of today’s society is primarily cerebral: we think more than we feel, we count more than we sing. To find voice, when voice is ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers: The Cha-cha Years

By Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco

Franciso Ibañez-Carrasco’s first novel is a beautiful and often difficult book about searching for the source of one’s humanity. Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers follows Camilo, a strong-willed gay Chilean who escapes Santiago for Vancouver ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sparrow Nights

By David Gilmour

David Gilmour’s latest novel may not win him a pack of new readers, but his fans will think it just fine. Sparrow Nights covers some perennial Gilmour themes – male desire and unrequited sexual obsession ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Am I Disturbing You?

By Anne Hébert, Sheila Fischman, trans.

The problem with pursuing the ineffable is that nine times out 10 what you produce is the ineffectual, and I’m afraid this novel does not represent, for Anne Hébert, that elusive 10th time. What we ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Bench on Which to Rest: The Diary of an Emigrant, a Novel

By Elena Maccaferri

A Bench on Which to Rest by Elena Mac-caferri is a simple tale, simply told. In a little more than 100 pages, Climene recounts her journey from her village in the hills of northern Italy ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Girls Around the House

By M.A.C. Farrant

In her sixth book, Girls Around the House, Sidney, B.C., writer M.A.C. Farrant has created an alter-ego in Marion – fiction writer, mother of three teenage children, and wife – who banters and kvetches amiably ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Long Stretch

By Linden MacIntyre

Anyone who has spent time in Cape Breton will recognize the presence of ghosts. The island is a region rich in history, mired in tradition, and full of secret stories that all the locals know. ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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