In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo

In her sophomore novel, Claire Tacon takes a gentle and measured approach to the story of one family’s experience with Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that results in developmental and physical disabilities. The novel is ... Read More »

May 31, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Mushroom Fan Club

By Elise Gravel

It would be hard to find a more charming non-fiction picture book – about a seemingly unpleasant topic – than The Mushroom Fan Club, Montreal author-illustrator Elise Gravel’s celebration of the titular members of the ... Read More »

May 31, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

What Happens Next

By Carey Sookocheff (ill.); Susan Hughes

The unnamed narrator of What Happens Next is bullied for being different and doesn’t want to go to school. The situation is hard to talk about, so when Mom asks her daughter how her day ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Goodbye Girls

By Lisa Harrington

To profit or not to profit off of someone else’s heartbreak, that is the question at the core of The Goodbye Girls, a new YA novel by Lisa Harrington. The book’s high school characters have ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Growing Pains: The Future of Democracy (and Work)

By Gwynne Dyer

Two seismic political events shook the world in 2016, confounding pollsters and pundits and jarring politicians and citizens alike. The first was the Brexit vote in the U.K.; the second was the election of Donald ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Whenever You’re Ready: Nora Polley on Life as a Stratford Festival Stage Manager

By Shawn DeSouza-Coelho

Shawn DeSouza-Coelho’s new book about life backstage at what is arguably Canada’s premiere repertory company – Ontario’s Stratford Festival – provides a unique, albeit superficial, glimpse into a little-known and often unheralded part of the ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Y: Oppenheimer, Horseman of Los Alamos

By Aaron Tucker

History has immortalized American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as the “father of the atomic bomb.” In the seven decades since the consummation of the Manhattan Project and the apocalypse wrought upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

1979

By Ray Robertson

Small towns have always occupied a fraught place in Canadian storytelling. Unlike cities or the wilderness – places where things happen – small towns in our national literature have usually been defined by their sense ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Black Chuck

By Regan McDonell

The debut novel from Toronto writer and graphic designer Regan McDonell begins in the aftermath of tragedy. The savage death of teenager Shaun Henry-Deacon – “the bloody grass, Shaun’s belly torn open, the police dog” ... Read More »

May 29, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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