★ A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan

Nelofer Pazira, the Afghani-Canadian star of the film Kandahar, became something of a celebrity after the film was released in the wake of Sept. 11. A Bed of Red Flowers is a memoir of Pazira’s ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Watch You Don’t Fall

By Bettina von Kampen

Bettina von Kampen’s Blue Becomes You was a finalist for the 2003 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In her new novel, she moves from small-town life to the margins of Winnipeg, setting Watch You ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Believe Me

By Patricia Pearson

When he’s not begging for KFC and inquiring whether spitting on a plant can make it grow, five-year-old Lester has started to ask his mother some troubling questions: “How do people get to Heaven, do ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gotta Find Me an Angel

By Brenda Brooks

Readers might presume that a story told from the point of view of a lesbian about her dead lesbian lover, her crazy lesbian friend, and the beautiful lesbian painter she is falling for will primarily ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ticknor

By Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti’s first book, the strong, surrealistic The Middle Stories, got a big promotional push from its publisher, Anansi. This was in part because a few of Heti’s stories had appeared in a trendy American ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blackfly Season

By Giles Blunt

Whodunit: who killed the competition? Answer: Peter Robinson and Giles Blunt, Canada’s most accomplished writers of crime fiction. The two of them constitute a mystery fan’s dream team: Robinson has the plot chops, while Blunt’s ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lines of Truth and Conversation

By Joan Alexander

"There is no heaven on earth. Hope must be devised. Pretend.” So concludes Celia Marx, a wife and mother expressing both her hidden cynic and her risk-taking writer-self in “Home for Lunch,” one of 10 ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Sweetness in the Belly

By Camilla Gibb

In her third novel, Camilla Gibb takes readers to the often overlooked country of Ethiopia. Gibb intertwines a story of exile in Thatcher’s London with a past pious existence in Haile Selassie’s politically unstable Ethiopia ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Snow Man

By David Albahari, Ellen Elias-Bursac, trans.

The fourth novel by David Albahari to be translated into English is a meditation on the immeasurable gulf that separates the ideas of exile and refuge. Refugees tend to come en masse, and even away ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rollercoaster: My Hectic Years As Jean Chrétien’s Diplomatic Advisor

By James Bartleman

The trouble with James Bartleman’s new diplomatic memoir is that he has his own tough act to follow. For sheer entertainment value, Rollercoaster can’t compete with his previously published On Six Continents, replete as that ... Read More »

March 14, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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★ A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan

Watch You Don’t Fall

Believe Me

Gotta Find Me an Angel

Ticknor

Blackfly Season

Lines of Truth and Conversation

Sweetness in the Belly

Snow Man

Rollercoaster: My Hectic Years As Jean Chrétien’s Diplomatic Advisor

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