Tiger Dreams

Readers should be forgiven if, weeks after finishing Tiger Dreams, they mistakenly remember it as a film rather than a novel. First-time novelist Almeda Glenn Miller favours the sweep of the big screen, moving from ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Salt Fish Girl

By Larissa Lai

Larissa Lai’s second novel, Salt Fish Girl, stinks. Or rather it’s filled with stink, so much so that odours are described on nearly every page, ranging from the salty tang of the title character to ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Teaching Mr. Cutler

By Robert Currie

Robert Currie’s first novel, Teaching Mr. Cutler, draws on the author’s 40 years of teaching experience to tell the story of Brad Cutler, a nervous naif in his first year in front of a class ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tent of Blue

By Rachael Preston

Tent of Blue is an ambitious debut novel from Hamilton writer Rachael Preston. The primary narrative strand follows 15-year-old Anton in Vancouver in 1952. His mother, Yvonne, a dance instructor, rules with a merciless lack ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Necessary Betrayals

By Guillaume Vigneault, Susan Ouriou, trans.

Like heroes in the best quest stories – Don Quixote, Bilbo Baggins, and Huck Finn, for example – Jack Dubois, the narrator of Guillaume Vigneault’s Necessary Betrayals, doesn’t know what he’s getting into when he ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Understanding

By Jane Barker Wright

The “understanding” of the title is presumably that which exists between Solly and Isobel Whitechapel, the couple at the centre of this novel: he’ll continue to womanize, she’ll continue having babies. This arrangement has been ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Rhinestone Button

By Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Gail Anderson-Dargatz writes lovely novels about unlovely people: unlovely people who grow beautiful under her compassionate, masterful, sly authorial gaze. After two books with unforgettable heroines, Beth Weeks of The Cure for Death by Lightning ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Womanizer: A Man of His Time

By Rick Salutin

Columnist and playwright Rick Salutin’s latest novel is a delicately balanced cautionary tale that takes a serious look at society’s ever-changing attitudes to sexuality. It’s both lively and witty, but not as light as it ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Butterflies Dance in the Dark

By Beatrice MacNeil

In this debut novel from playwright Beatrice MacNeil, little Mari-Jen Delene is raised in a strictly Catholic village in Cape Breton in the early 1950s. There she is exposed to violence, loss, and superstitions, experiences ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Song Beneath the Ice

By Joe Fiorito

Columnist Joe Fiorito, who received international acclaim for his family memoir, The Closer We Are to Dying, will probably receive further acclaim for his first novel, The Song Beneath the Ice. The novel’s roots lie ... Read More »

January 8, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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