Fiction: Novels

★ Behind the Face of Winter

The novel of immigration has emerged as an important genre in recent years, with such works as Francisco Ibanez-Carrasco’s Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers and Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here heading a list ... Read More »

January 29, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Heave

By Christy Ann Conlin

There have been many successful novels that never venture far beyond the confines of a single character’s mind. But if an author is going to set such narrow parameters, then there had better be something ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Journeymind

By Brad Thomas Batten

A car skids on black ice on Avenue Road in Toronto. As the unnamed narrator lies badly injured by the roadside, the souls of his fellow victims, lover Elle and his father, slip “like eels, ... Read More »

January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Midnight Cab

By James W. Nichol

The blurb on the back of Midnight Cab makes a brave – or possibly suicidal – claim that aspects of this mystery are “worthy of Thomas Harris.” The surprise is that the comparison is not ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Divine Economy of Salvation

By Priscilla Uppal

In the early 1970s an angelic teenage girl named Bella dies mysteriously at St. X. School for Girls. She had been an initiate to “the Sisterhood,” a small group of students who gathered in one ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Saints of Big Harbour

By Lynn Coady

The literary mavens of Canada are keeping a close eye on Lynn Coady because her first two works of fiction (Strange Heaven, a novel, and Play the Monster Blind, a story collection) showed such dazzling ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Crow Lake

By Mary Lawson

Crow Lake begins at a luminous moment for the Morrison family. Luke, the eldest son, has been accepted at teachers’ college, the first of the family to go on to higher education. Matt, two years ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mile End

By Lise Tremblay, Gail Scott, trans.

The unnamed narrator of Lise Tremblay’s Mile End plays the piano for a living, accompanying aspiring singers and ballet dancers. She could do much better if she tried, but she is confused about what she ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Heart Does Not Bend

By Makeda Silvera

Makeda Silvera is the author of two collections of short stories, but she is probably better known as an editor and co-founder of Sister Vision Press than as a writer. The Heart Does Not Bend, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Doing the Heart Good

By Neil Bissoondath

Relatively early in Doing the Heart Good, an academic colleague of the narrator, making clumsy fun of what he incorrectly takes to be a hangover, expresses his surprise and delight. “Maybe you’re not as much ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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