Sistering

Jennifer Quist won the 2014 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award for her first novel, Love Letters of the Angels of Death. Her follow-up, Sistering, explores the complex relationships of five sisters who are ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Mouthquake

By Daniel Allen Cox

Daniel Allen Cox’s fourth novel, Mouthquake, is his most assured and accomplished to date. It opens on an anonymous young boy in Montreal who speaks with a stutter, conceives of himself as a German shepherd, ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Meadowlark

By Wendi Stewart

Bildungsroman are meant to offer readers an acceleration of personal development, beginning at a critical turning point in the central character’s young life and continuing to the elusive moment at which they greet adulthood. For ... Read More »

September 9, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Illegal

By Lawrence Hill

If the statistics are to be believed, we are facing a global refugee crisis. According to the United Nations, there were a staggering 59.5 million people forcibly displaced from their homes by the end of ... Read More »

September 8, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Captive

By Claudine Dumont; David Scott Hamilton (trans.)

In her debut novel, Quebec photographer and teacher Claudine Dumont plunges the reader into the depths of a nightmare with a visceral immediacy that leaves one gasping for breath. Emma is the sort of person ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Afterlife of Birds

By Elizabeth Philips

The debut novel from Saskatoon poet Elizabeth Philips (A Blue with Blood in It and Beyond My Keeping, both of which won the Saskatchewan Poetry Award) features a man who obsessively rebuilds skeletons of birds ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Road to Atlantis

By Leo Brent Robillard

In his previous novels, Leo Brent Robillard has tackled the Boer War, the Wild West, and Jazz Age Montreal, but for his latest, he’s set his sights on the present. The Road to Atlantis begins ... Read More »

September 3, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Theory of Light at Midnight

By Elizabeth Ukrainetz

In an essay called “The Chattering Mind,” collected in his 2015 book, Where I’m Reading From, novelist and critic Tim Parks isolates a “monstrously heightened consciousness” as “the main protagonist” of 20th-century fiction. The “full-blown ... Read More »

August 27, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Wild Rose

By Sharon Butala

Sharon Butala’s seventh novel – and first work of fiction since the 2002 story collection Real Life – is the kind of near-perfect book that proclaims the full expression of a writer’s artistry and sensibility. ... Read More »

August 20, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

His Whole Life

By Elizabeth Hay

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done?” This is the question posed by 10-year-old Jim to his mother, Nancy, from the back seat of their old Chevette as they head north from New York City ... Read More »

August 4, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Sistering

★ Mouthquake

Meadowlark

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Captive

The Afterlife of Birds

The Road to Atlantis

The Theory of Light at Midnight

★ Wild Rose

His Whole Life

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