When Things Get Back to Normal

M.T. Dohaney was calmly watching television when her husband went out to play hockey with friends. The next time she saw him, she was a widow. His sudden on-ice heart attack left Dohaney reeling, both ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Princess and the Whiskheads: A Fable

By Russell Smith

Set in the mythical kingdom of Liralove, The Princess and the Whiskheads follows the discovery by princess Juliana of strife between a band of bohemian malcontents, called Whiskheads, and the common people. The Whiskheads, who ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sudden Weight of Snow

By Laisha Rosnau

The Sudden Weight of Snow follows one long winter in the life of 17-year-old Sylvia Kostak, known to all of her friends as Harper. Feeling trapped in rural interior B.C., Harper and her best friend ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Making a Stone of the Heart

By Cynthia Flood

Cynthia Flood is a very good storyteller. The winner of the 1990 Journey Prize for short fiction, Flood presents the intertwined stories of a half dozen people in Making a Stone of the Heart, her ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Open

By Lisa Moore

After millennia of clinging by its fingernails to the edge of North America, Newfoundland is everywhere. It’s on the big screens in The Shipping News and Rare Birds, at the Giller Prize with Michael Crummey’s ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Live by Request

By Rob Payne

In Fictionland, all novels that are narrated by struggling members of rock bands feature embarrassing alcoholic dads; laconic, skinny love-object minxes; service jobs that resemble psych wards; descriptions of greasy food; and at least one ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Porcupines and China Dolls

By Robert Alexie

Any author that begins a novel with a man standing on a lonely highway with the business end of a rifle in his mouth has got his work cut out for him. The challenge is ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Mount Appetite

By Bill Gaston

Bill Gaston’s Mount Appetite is an unsettling collection of 12 short stories that plunges readers into a morass of unfulfilled desires, broken hearts, and lives overwhelmed to the point of destruction by chemical and emotional ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Closer Apart: The Ardara Variations

By Gayla Reid

The cover of Gayla Reid’s Closer Apart shows a tree viewed from somewhere near the base. From this perspective, it’s impossible not to recognize one’s own relative height and to marvel at the branches – ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

A Sack of Teeth

By Grant Buday

With his latest novel, A Sack of Teeth, critically praised Vancouver writer Grant Buday chronicles a single day in the life of a Vancouver family. It’s September 1965, and six-year-old Jack Klein is about to ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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When Things Get Back to Normal

The Princess and the Whiskheads: A Fable

The Sudden Weight of Snow

Making a Stone of the Heart

★ Open

Live by Request

Porcupines and China Dolls

Mount Appetite

Closer Apart: The Ardara Variations

A Sack of Teeth

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