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Fiction: Novels

Niagara Motel

By Ashley Little

Ashley Little, author of the 2014 novel Anatomy of a Girl Gang, which won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, goes on a road trip in ... Read More »

September 15, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nostalgia

By M.G. Vassanji

Having previously mined his South Asian heritage, East African upbringing, and North American education in historically soaked fiction and non-fiction, M.G. Vassanji turns to the future in his new novel, somewhat ironically titled Nostalgia. On ... Read More »

September 7, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Five Roses

By Alice Zorn

Readers familiar with Miriam Toews’s earnest rendering of suicide’s complexities and heartbreak in All My Puny Sorrows will appreciate Alice Zorn’s admirable second novel for its equally sober depiction of the lasting impact the act ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Fatalists

By Patrick Blennerhassett

Most everyone has experienced the aggravation of temporarily losing cellphone or Internet services. But what would happen if all these forms of communication suddenly disappeared – simultaneously, and perhaps forever? How intense would the aggravation ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels