Tacones

Winning the three-day novel writing contest is the party trick of the publishing scene. It’s light, it’s effervescent, and it gets you noticed. Unfortunately, to accomplish the latter, you have to actually publish the results ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America

By Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird,eds.

Cherokee writer Betty Louise Bell says she writes “because [her] mother could not.” Reclamation – of individual voice and collective experience, the personal and political – is a central theme in this anthology of poetry, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: The Revolutionary New Approach to Understanding and Curing Anorexia and Bulimia

By Peggy Claude-Pierre

News of Peggy Claude-Pierre’s phenomenal success rate in curing “hopeless” sufferers of eating disorders spread quickly. Her Montreux Counselling Centre, operating in Victoria since 1993, gained instant notoriety after she appeared on Oprah, and following ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Fox’s Nose

By Sally Ireland

The Siege of Leningrad by German forces during the Second World War lasted for 29 months and notched up a civilian death toll in the hundreds of thousands. With just one supply route open – ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

In the Wings

By Carole Corbeil

Robert Fulford noted a few months back that a lump of Toronto writers – Ondaatje, Michaels – place their narratives amid the concrete pylons and thick sumacs of the city’s ravines. Add Carole Corbeil. In ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry

By Judy Fong Bates

Canadians have long been familiar with the Chinese hand laundries and restaurants of the hinterland, owned and operated by a few isolated Chinese families, connected to urban Chinatowns only by kinship ties and supply lines. ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Leaving Earth

By Helen Humphreys

The suspect beginning of Leaving Earth gives the impression the author is going to attempt a mytho-poetic version of Toronto in the 1930s – shades of Michael Ondaatje, except noticeably lacking his magical command of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Visible Worlds

By Marilyn Bowering

History needs time before it talks. In Visible Worlds, Winnipeg-born writer Marilyn Bowering has written of the experiences of an immigrant Canadian family during the Second World War. It’s a distinctly Prairie story. The coming ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Any Known Blood

By Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill’s outstanding second novel, Any Known Blood, is narrated by Langston Cane V – son of a white mother and black father, in his late 30s, recently divorced, and working in Toronto as speech ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dr. Kalbfleisch & the Chicken Restaurant

By Cordelia Strube

It’s one of those dog days of summer. Sitting and sweating on the back porch, through the thirsty leaves of the overgrown cherry tree we watch the man from across the back alley – the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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