The Skeleton Dance

For Robert Walker, the tormented mid-thirties anti-hero of Philip Quinn’s second novel, there’s “Always something breached, open, some wound, hole.... Some box you’re trying to get out of, or into.” Ruptures and imprisonments figure prominently ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Breakwater House

By Pascale Quiviger; Lazer Lederhendler, trans.

A house “as close to the sea as a house can get before becoming a boat”; a house that appears on no map and therefore possesses no postal code; a house with no electricity or ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

By Drew Hayden Taylor

In Ojibway mythology, Nanabush is a mischievous trickster, shapeshifter, and culture hero. Journalist, playwright, and author Drew Hayden Taylor uses this figure, and his manic spirit, as inspiration in his first novel for adults. Recently ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Kitchen House

By Kathleen Grissom

Saskatchewan-born Kathleen Grissom’s debut novel is a forthright, albeit overwrought, look at plantation life before the American Civil War. It focuses primarily on the women who lived through it, both up in the big house ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Deloume Road

By Matthew Hooton

Told in more than 100 chapters and written from the perspectives of 12 characters across three timelines, Matthew Hooton’s debut novel, Deloume Road, is nothing if not ambitious. Unfortunately, despite smooth prose that evokes a ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dahanu Road

By Anosh Irani

Though the area outside the western Indian city of Dahanu is not an actual jungle, in Anosh Irani’s third novel, the same law applies: “higher eats lower.” Lowest of all are the indigenous Warlis, chained ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Doctrine of Affections

By Paul Headrick

In music, the “doctrine of the affections” is the theory that a composer can elicit involuntary emotions in listeners by utilizing certain techniques, such as large or small intervals between notes (meant to invoke joy ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Extinction Club

By Jeffrey Moore

In Jeffrey Moore’s third novel, a recovering addict from Neptune, New Jersey, arrives in a snowy Laurentian town with nothing but a beat-up van, withdrawal hallucinations, and a suitcase full of inherited cash. Fleeing lawsuits, ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Walt Whitman’s Secret

By George Fetherling

Frequent Q&Q reviewer George Fetherling’s third novel is an intriguing look at one of America’s most influential poets. The novel focuses on the last years of Whitman’s life as observed by his real-life friend Horace ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Patient Frame

By Steven Heighton

Patient Frame is Kingston-based poet, fiction writer, and essayist Steven Heighton’s fifth collection of poems. As readers of his work have come to expect, this book has tremendous range, covering subjects both personal and political, ... Read More »

March 22, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

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