Thirteen Shells

A stranger who’s read the nation’s coming-of-age fiction but never stepped foot in Canada could easily be pushed to exclaim, “What the hell happened there?” If bygone Anne of Avonlea’s biggest adolescent mishap involved dyed ... Read More »

May 26, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw

By Joe Friesen

If a ballad begins with the birth of its central figure – think Davey Crockett on a mountaintop in Tennessee – where does that leave this account of Danny Wolfe, born in Regina, three months ... Read More »

May 25, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Worldly Goods

By Alice Petersen

From the first story in Alice Petersen’s sophomore collection, you know you are in the hands of a writer possessed of stellar skills. Worldly Goods is a multi-faceted diamond: its carbon base is the stuff ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Most Heartless Town in Canada

By Elaine McCluskey

Rita Van Loon and Hubert Hansen, former residents of the fictional Nova Scotia town of Myrtle, share the job of narrating Elaine McCluskey’s offbeat second novel, and they have things they would like to get ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

By Katherine Holstein; Maria Toorpakai

Maria Toorpakai has survived horrors most of her North American readers will never encounter except between the covers of a book: public beatings, confinement, dengue fever, death threats. Born in 1990 in Pakistan’s oppressive northwest ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Torp

By Michael Mirolla

In his new novel, writer and publisher Michael Mirolla uses the 1970 FLQ crisis as the backdrop for a story about two young people caught up in a relationship they cannot control – one of ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death Valley

By Susan Perly

Susan Perly’s first novel since 2001’s Love Street, Death Valley is a postmodern escapade through America’s nuclear playground. The setting is 2006, in the midst of George W. Bush’s divisive war on terror. The novel ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation

By Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail (ed.)

A selection of personal essays by indigenous and non-indigenous writers, In This Together: Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation is a call for meaningful reconciliation between colonizers and indigenous people. Edited by author and historian ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Hamburger

By Daniel Perry

The stories in Daniel Perry’s debut collection are arranged in three sections – Coarse, Medium, and Fine – corresponding to three textures of hamburger meat. This provides an obvious link to the book’s title (which ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Light That Remains

By Lyse Champagne

The Syrian refugee crisis has captured the minds and consciences of people all around the world since the image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, dead and lying face down on a Turkish beach, spread around the ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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