Anxious Gravity

Reflecting back on his life, twentysomething Gideon Gast finds that, when it comes right down to it, he’s spent most of his time “in anticipation and remembrance of sex.” Caught between his born-again mom and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In the Name of Salomé

By Julia Alvarez

With In the Name of Salomé, Latin American writer Julia Alvarez returns to the same ground she covered with In the Time of the Butterflies. Here, as there, Alvarez fictionalizes a historical story of women ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Krekshuns

By Dennis E. Bolen

It takes a lot longer to get this dark novel out of your mind than it does to read it. Another in Bolen’s series about Vancouver parole officer Barry Delta, the book is a discordant ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Our Lady of the Lost and Found

By Diane Schoemperlen

For 15 years, Kingston, Ontario’s Diane Schoemperlen has used formal pranks to reveal an imagination as quick and associative as a hummingbird’s wing. Her novel, In the Language of Love, was a long – and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Loving This Man

By Althea Prince

With Loving This Man, her first novel, Althea Prince follows other West Indian-Canadian authors (Dionne Brand, Rabindranath Maharaj, Austin Clarke) in exploring the trauma of emigration. The first half of the novel is set in ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Playing House

By Patricia Pearson

Positioning its protagonist somewhere between the worlds of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones and Allison Pearson’s Kate Reddy, Playing House falls effortlessly into the recent boom in narratives that explore the lives of thirtysomething females pursuing ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The In-between World of Vikram Lall

By M.G. Vassanji

There’s always a risk that any book set in Africa will have a soft-focus photograph on its cover and a title like The Weight of Water, or The Smell of Hibiscus, or Water Lightly Flecked ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Astral Projection

By Edward O’Connor

Poignancy alert! Astral Projection is a novel about an adolescent boy’s coming of age in the early 1960s. The fiction field is already overcrowded with finely crafted quasi-memoirs of confused boys in confused times, and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vaudeville!

By Gaétan Soucy, Sheila Fischman, trans.

The time is a 1929 that never was. The place is a magical New York where the Order of Demolishers is tearing down buildings and the demolished are looking for shelter wherever they can find ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Solemn Vows: A Marc Edwards Mystery

By Don Gutteridge

Early in 2003, Ensign Marc Edwards appeared in Don Gutteridge’s first historical mystery, Turncoat. A few real-time months later, Edwards is back in a new novel set several months later in historical time, already promoted ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Quill and Quire

Anxious Gravity

In the Name of Salomé

Krekshuns

Our Lady of the Lost and Found

Loving This Man

Playing House

The In-between World of Vikram Lall

Astral Projection

Vaudeville!

Solemn Vows: A Marc Edwards Mystery

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