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Once You Break a Knuckle

The challenge of giving literary voice to working-class characters too inarticulate, unselfconscious, and just plain beaten down to do so for themselves has been taken up by authors as diverse as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Girl in Shades

By Allison Baggio

Growing up, Maya Devine never understood why her half-Irish mother dragged her to Hindu temple, or made her stand on the streetcorners of Saskatoon handing out passages from the Baghavad Gita. Maya has always been ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories

By Johanna Skibsrud

Johanna Skibsrud blasted onto the literary stage with The Sentimentalists, which won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her follow-up, a collection of short stories, is likely to provide ammunition to those who questioned the merits ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Autobiography of Childhood

By Sina Queyras

Autobiography of Childhood is the first novel by acclaimed Montreal poet and critic Sina Queyras. Unfolding over the course of a single day, the novel follows the five surviving siblings of the Combral family as ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Return

By Dany Laferrière; David Homel, trans.

Don’t tell Dany Laferrière you can’t go home again; he won’t believe you. Instead, he’ll prove that going home isn’t just a state of mind or a literal journey, but a fierce and discombobulating act ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Come from Afar

By Gayla Reid

Gayla Reid wins awards – the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Journey Prize, the Marian Engel Award, to name a few – and deservedly so. Her writing is lush and highly charged; her characters fully ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Big Dream

By Rebecca Rosenblum

The persistence of hope and humanity within the sometimes demoralizing grind of a corporate environment propels Rebecca Rosenblum’s new collection of linked short stories. Rosenblum followed her Metcalf-Rooke Award–winning 2008 debut collection, Once, with Road ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People

By Douglas Coupland; Graham Roumieu, illus.

Read the title carefully: it is not an exaggeration. Without question, this book is highly inappropriate for young people. For adults who like their reading material on the weird and twisted side, however, it should ... Read More »

November 14, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Virgin Cure

By Ami McKay

With The Virgin Cure, the long-awaited follow-up to her best-selling 2006 debut, The Birth House, Ami McKay once again examines an element of the lives of girls and women history often ignores. This time, McKay ... Read More »

November 7, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Freedom Climbers

By Bernadette McDonald

In Freedom Climbers, Bernadette McDonald, the founding vice-president of mountain culture at the Banff Centre and author of seven books on international mountaineering, tells the story of a group of 20th-century Poles who overcame social ... Read More »

October 31, 2011 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

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