The Pale Indian

Adding to the genre of shameful histories of white exploitation of the Canadian native population, The Pale Indian is a fictionalized account of a Northwest Territories aboriginal community that has seen its share of racism, ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Bloodknots

By Ami Sands Brodoff

Ami Sands Brodoff is not afraid of blood and guts imagery or the narrative intricacy that her characters’ densely packed psyches seem to demand. In these 12 ambitious stories, Brodoff probes and prods our most ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

One Foot in Heaven

By David Waltner-Toews

There’s a quietness at the heart of One Foot in Heaven, the first collection of short stories from veterinary professor and poet David Waltner-Toews. Given the subject matter – Prairie-dwelling Mennonites – the sense of ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Blind Crescent

By Michelle Berry

Suburb-lit is one of those classically American phenomena, like jazz or drive-through churches. From Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt to Updike’s Rabbit to Carver’s cavalcade of losers, the suburbs have been a mainstay of the American literary ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Spiral Garden

By Anne Hines

In The Spiral Garden, Toronto writer Anne Hines takes the Biblical character Ruth and gives her a decidedly modern slant. Meet Ruth Broggan, a divorced, empty-nester mother of two and Christian minister who is searching ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Place Apart

By Maureen Lennon

Hiding in her bedroom, coiled into a tightly formed ball against the wall, has become standard practice for 15-year-old Cathy Mugan. The young girl, who suffers abhorrent abuse at the hands of her deranged mother, ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Extraordinary Garden

By rançois Gravel, Sheila Fischman, trans.

Sometimes the best stories are the simplest ones. “I can sum up … in two minutes,” Marc-André begins. “I desired her for seven years, I loved her for three days and three nights, and then ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Night’s Child

By Maureen Jennings

In Night’s Child, the fifth Detective Murdoch mystery, Maureen Jennings once again takes readers to the dark side of Victorian Toronto. This time around we discover that the rough trade of child pornography was already ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cities of Weather

By Matthew Fox

Montreal-based Matthew Fox, an editor at Maisonneuve, has made a promising foray into the short fiction arena. A generally solid, occasionally excellent collection of short stories, Cities of Weather is set largely in urban landscapes ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Dodecahedron or a Frame for Frames

By Paul Glennon

To call The Dodecahedron Paul Glennon’s second “collection” would be a little misleading. Images, phrases, characters, and scenarios recur so frequently over these twelve stories that spotting the skewed correspondences becomes a sort of hallucinatory ... Read More »

June 6, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Pale Indian

Bloodknots

One Foot in Heaven

Blind Crescent

The Spiral Garden

A Place Apart

The Extraordinary Garden

Night’s Child

Cities of Weather

★ The Dodecahedron or a Frame for Frames

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