Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person

Anna Mehler Paperny is the kind of person who knows exactly what Anne Sexton meant when, in her poem “Wanting to Die,” she described the “almost unnameable lust” of suicide. Paperny’s memoir begins with her ... Read More »

August 8, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

By Jesse Thistle

Jesse Thistle has lived a hard life. A descendent of Saskatchewan’s Michif “road allowance” people (who lived on small strips of land between homesteads that were unused by the Crown), his parents were not able ... Read More »

July 29, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Native Peoples, Reviews

Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life

By Ian Cutler

“[T]he only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn ... Read More »

July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Outside In: A Political Memoir

By Libby Davies

Libby Davies and Sid Ryan are high-profile figures who for decades have been on the front lines, calling out governments on social service cutbacks, environmental outrages, wars, and discrimination. While they share similar life trajectories ... Read More »

June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

A Grander Vision: My Life in the Labour Movement

By Sid Ryan

June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants

By Ann Hui

Chop Suey Nation, by Globe and Mail food writer Ann Hui, is an entertaining look at how Chinese food evolved to become quintessentially Canadian. Hui tells her "sweet and sour story" via a cross-country road ... Read More »

June 24, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By Samra Habib

In her debut memoir, author Samra Habib writes with lucidity and sensory depth, taking care to maintain the specificity of her experience without resorting to cultural absolutes. We Have Always Been Here traces the author’s ... Read More »

June 3, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Mistakes to Run With

By Yasuko Thanh

In the first two pages of her new memoir, Yasuko Thanh delivers a fully formed portrait of an adolescence lived in a world of sheer contrasts. By the time she is 12 years old, Thanh ... Read More »

May 16, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose

By Samra Zafar with Meg Masters

Written in collaboration with author and editor Meg Masters and based on a 2017 article published in Toronto Life magazine, A Good Wife traces the heart-wrenching and empowering story of Samra Zafar, a cricket-loving Pakistani ... Read More »

February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

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