Recipe for a Perfect Wife

Alice Hale is desperate to escape her life, but she never imagined freedom would mean leaving New York City for a dilapidated old house in the bedroom town of Greenville. She only agrees to her ... Read More »

January 23, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ The Baudelaire Fractal

By Lisa Robertson

Acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson’s debut novel is a difficult book. But that should be expected, seeing as Robertson’s poetry is also famously difficult. Her work – conceptual, fixated on questions of form and linguistic subjectivity, ... Read More »

January 20, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Never Forget

By Martin Michaud; Arthur Holden (trans.)

Crime writers working in a series format must navigate a fine line between making each novel unique and accessible to new readers, and ensuring enough continuity and development to satisfy long-time series devotees. This line ... Read More »

January 16, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Many Rivers to Cross

By Peter Robinson

January 16, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Africville

By Jeffrey Colvin

New York City writer Jeffrey Colvin’s debut novel is a multi-generational tale based on the eponymous Black community north of Halifax, which was settled by Jamaican prisoners the British expelled in 1788. These exiles were ... Read More »

January 13, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Rebent Sinner

By Ivan Coyote

Ivan Coyote’s 12th book is a memoir in vignettes capturing the author’s recent experiences on the road. The work is a charming and nuanced contribution to the genre; the writing has a springy, playful quality ... Read More »

January 9, 2020 | Filed under: Reviews

Falling for Myself

By Dorothy Ellen Palmer

Dorothy Ellen palmer entered this world with the deck seemingly stacked against her. Born with congenital abnormalities in both feet to a young single woman unprepared for motherhood, Palmer was eventually adopted by a family ... Read More »

January 9, 2020 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Symphony No. 3

By Chris Eaton

The latest from New Brunswick novelist and musician Chris Eaton is a mythopoeic biography of Camille Saint-Saëns as relayed by the Romantic composer’s fictional twin, a figure we quickly come to regard not as a ... Read More »

January 6, 2020 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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