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★ Apparitions

With Apparitions, Saskatoon writer and Deaf awareness advocate Adam Pottle (Voice: Adam Pottle on Writing with Deafness) has crafted perhaps the most unsettling novel of the year, an account of violence and despair, isolation and ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Beautiful Beautiful

By Brandon Reid

Brandon Reid’s debut novel Beautiful Beautiful centres around 12-year-old Derik Mormin, who is Heiltsuk through his father and English through his mother. After living in the city for all of his life, he is detached ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Cobra and the Key

By Sam Shelstad

The pitch for an article on “demystifying the writing process” that I received in my email within days of reading The Cobra and the Key was the kind of odd, grandiosely worded missive you might ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ As the Andes Disappeared

By Caroline Dawson; Anita Anand (trans.)

“Our creative process was born there, in the bottom of garbage cans our parents emptied so that we could sit quietly, observing the world and putting it into words,” writes Caroline Dawson in an autobiographical ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Haunting of Adrian Yates

By Markus Harwood-Jones

Adrian Yates is used to fading into the background, especially at home, where his dads are too busy arguing to pay him any attention. Drifting listlessly through mundane summer days, the only thing tethering Adrian ... Read More »

December 13, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Mehndi Boy

By Zain Bandali and Jani Balakumar (ill.)

A paean to the richness of culture and the inclusivity of art, Mehndi Boy by debut author Zain Bandali is a captivating early chapter book that is as intricate and lush as the henna that ... Read More »

December 12, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ All the Faces of Me

By Laura Alary and Salini Perera (ill.)

In October, a fresh social-emotional learning book landed on bookshelves, joining the ranks of modern classics such as Danielle Daniel’s Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox and The Boy with Big, Big Feelings by Britney ... Read More »

December 11, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Green Fuse Burning

By Tiffany Morris

Mystery compounds mystery on the first page of debut novella Green Fuse Burning. Tiffany Morris begins her fiction with a brief introductory essay for an exhibit at Gallery Autochthone, where the final six paintings – ... Read More »

December 6, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border

By Marina Sonkina

Marina Sonkina In Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border, Marina Sonkina renders the impact of Russia’s attack on Ukraine in startling, intimate details: the toothless woman who spent her savings on a pair of dentures, ... Read More »

December 6, 2023 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

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