Fiction: Novels

Flee, Fly, Flown

Janet Hepburn’s first novel could be dismissed as simply Thelma & Louise for the Canadian geriatric set: two elderly women escape from their nursing home in Ottawa, pick up a young male vagrant, and embark ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Land of Birdfishes

By Rebecca Silver Slayter

In her debut novel, Rebecca Silver Slayter employs no fewer than five unreliable narrators in the service of a bleak story of twin sisters from Nova Scotia who are separated after bearing witness to their ... Read More »

April 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hungry Ghosts

By Shyam Selvadurai

“In Sri Lankan myth, a person is reborn as a peréthaya because, during his human life, he desired too much.… The peréthayas that appear to us are always our ancestors, and it is our duty ... Read More »

April 8, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sister Mine

By Nalo Hopkinson

Nalo Hopkinson’s fifth novel for adults delves into the areas of speculative fiction and the Caribbean oral tradition her writing is best known for. The story opens in Toronto, a setting that at first glance ... Read More »

March 25, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Beautiful Truth

By Colin McAdam

Walter and Judy Ribke, a married couple in 1970s rural Vermont, are deeply in love but infertility has rendered them unable to extend their shared affections into parenthood. Walt and Judy know they want to ... Read More »

March 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Almost Criminal

By E.R. Brown

Despite the skunky haze of marijuana drifting through every chapter, E.R. Brown’s debut crime thriller is less a book about drugs and more about what happens when the desire for money and respect lure innocent ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Miracles of Ordinary Men

By Amanda Leduc

In her messy, visceral debut novel, Hamilton-based author Amanda Leduc addresses age-old Catholic obsessions of good and evil, right and wrong, free will and predetermination. By turns enchanting and frustrating, The Miracles of Ordinary Men ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Douglas Notebooks

By Christine Eddie; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Sheila Fischman has undertaken an ambitious task in translating Christine Eddie’s short novel, The Douglas Notebooks, into English. The original French text, Les Carnets de Douglas, won the 2008 Prix France-Quebec and the 2009 Prix ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

To the Spring, by Night

By Seyhmus Dagtekin; Donald Winkler, trans.

Seyhmus Dagtekin, a Kurdish poet and writer born in Turkey but living in Paris, gently unfolds a story that reads like a cross between a memoir and a sacred text. Told in the first person ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Woman Upstairs

By Claire Messud

Don’t be fooled by the opening chapters of Claire Messud’s new novel, in which Nora Eldridge blazes forth with furious intensity, her words spitting and sparking off the page as she describes who she is, ... Read More »

March 12, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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