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The Calling

By Inger Ash Wolfe

One of the nice things about reviewing The Calling, the first novel from pseudonymous “well-known and well-regarded North American writer” Inger Ash Wolfe, is that one can avoid entirely the question of who Wolfe is ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sun Going Down

By Jack Todd

Jack Todd is best-known for his hard-hitting sports journalism in Montreal’s The Gazette and his 2001 memoir of dodging the draft, The Taste of Metal. Unfortunately, the road from non-fiction to fiction is not always ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barnacle Love

By Anthony De Sa

The latest trend to grip Canadian publishing – immigrant literature – has been both refreshing and an inevitablity. It has given prominence to the voices of a significant and influential group within Canadian society – ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Gerbil Mother

By D.M. Bryan

Gerbil Mother asks readers to overcome an impossible premise: that a fetus, age zero, can be a conscious, thinking, seeing thing. A narrator, even. One named Gerbil. Calgary-based D.M. Bryan’s first novel is a story ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Darren Effect

By Libby Creelman

Eight years after publishing a well-received book of short stories, Massachusetts-born, Newfoundland-based writer Libby Creelman has written a remarkably self-assured first novel with characters that must surely exist somewhere outside of its deftly written pages. ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lost

By Cathy Ostlere

In September 1995, Cathy Ostlere’s family gathered in Calgary to celebrate the 36th birthday of her younger brother David. The birthday boy himself wasn’t there, but that was hardly unusual: it had become a family ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography