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Fiction: Novels

Arrhythmia

By Alice Zorn

Alice Zorn’s first novel follows five Montrealers as they navigate critical junctures in their relationships. Joelle, a former film student now working as a medical secretary, has just turned 40. Her husband, Marc, has become ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The O’Briens

By Peter Behrens

Compared to the relative restraint of his 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award–winning first novel, The Law of Dreams, which chronicled, over the course of a year, an Irish emigrant’s attempt to flee to Canada during ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

And Me Among Them

By Kristen den Hartog

Rather than exploit its seven-foot-two-inch tall narrator as a kind of grotesque spectacle, Kristen den Hartog’s new novel uses the character’s unusual physique as a way of illuminating the world from an extraordinary perspective. Ruth ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A World Elsewhere

By Wayne Johnston

Two young, bright, male students from very different backgrounds meet at Princeton University in the late 19th century and develop such a close relationship that acquaintances accuse them of being “sodomites.” They are both eccentric, ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Never Knowing

By Chevy Stevens

The debut psychological thriller from Chevy Stevens, last year’s Still Missing, attracted a mix of raves and boos for the unflinching way it depicted female violence, but the sheer volume of attention lavished on it ... Read More »

July 21, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels