The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

Samuel Tyne is one of the oddest protagonists you will find in a Canadian novel of this or any other publishing season. A native of Africa’s Gold Coast (which we now call Ghana, though he ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Eastern Standard Tribe

By Cory Doctorow

It is 2022 and Art, the tech-head protagonist of Eastern Standard Tribe, is on the sunny rooftop of a Boston sanatorium debating whether to drive a pencil up his nose. A homemade lobotomy seems like ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Horn of a Lamb

By Robert Sedlack

Novelist Robert Sedlack’s poignant second novel, The Horn of a Lamb, takes place a long way from the setting of his acclaimed 2001 debut, The African Safari Papers. This time Sedlack introduces the reader to ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beginning of Was

By Ania Szado

Toronto writer Ania Szado’s skillful debut novel reminds us that even in the grand democratization of household chores, sewing remains a female discipline. The lives of mothers and daughters, it seems, are still linked one ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Stowaway

By Robert Hough

In 1996 Filipino crew members deserted the Taiwanese container ship Maersk Dubai at port in Halifax after revealing to authorities chilling tales of onboard cruelty and murder. After discovering two Romanian stowaways who had boarded ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Love Object

By Sally Cooper

In Sally Cooper’s debut novel, Love Object, young Mercy Brewer is thrown into a state of confusion when her mother is hospitalized with a serious mental illness. The girl’s ability to communicate, especially with males, ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

How the Blessed Live

By Susannah M. Smith

How the Blessed Live considers a modern family while mirroring mythic relationships that muddle magic and the real world. Susannah Smith opens this first novel with quotes from the myth of Isis and Osiris, and ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Tempting Faith Dinapoli

By Lisa Gabriele

The opening chapters of Tempting Faith DiNapoli brim with bodily fluids – not surprising, considering that four of the main characters, Matty, Faith, Hope, and Charlie, are all under the age of four. Those fluids ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Private View

By Jean McNeil

Alex, a disillusioned former artist, and Conrad, a manic mid-career artist, are flatmates and sometime lovers in London’s northeast end in transplanted Canadian novelist Jean McNeil’s Private View. It is a skillfully evoked, somewhat sordid ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Donovan’s Station

By Robin McGrath

Writers of quality often come from the fringes, and places on the fringes can became centres of literary excellence. The Ireland of Yeats, Synge, and Joyce is one example, as is the American South of ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

Eastern Standard Tribe

The Horn of a Lamb

Beginning of Was

★ The Stowaway

Love Object

How the Blessed Live

Tempting Faith Dinapoli

Private View

★ Donovan’s Station

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