Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-life Journey into Wild Land

It’s a wonder that Starting Out in the Afternoon, a set of diary entries about working through a mid-life crisis in the north country, ever got published. Creative writing instructors the world over rightfully warn ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Gardens of Shame: The Tragedy of Martin Kruze and the Sexual Abuse at Maple Leaf Gardens

By Cathy Vine and Paul Challen

When Martin Arnold Kruze ended his life at age 35 by jumping from the Bloor Street Viaduct on Oct. 30, 1997, he had been used and betrayed not only by pedophiles employed at Maple Leaf ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life

By Barbara McLean

Twenty-six years ago, Barbara McLean, the young wife of a country doctor-to-be, set out with her husband for a hardscrabble, decrepit farmstead in Grey County, Ontario. The couple were complete beginners to farming, and while ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman’s Life in Nova Scotia

By Verna Thomas

Invisible Shadows takes readers on an intimate walk through one of Canada’s oldest and largest black communities: Preston, Nova Scotia. Author Verna Thomas, born in 1935, mother of seven, and long active within the Baptist ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Doing the Heart Good

By Neil Bissoondath

Relatively early in Doing the Heart Good, an academic colleague of the narrator, making clumsy fun of what he incorrectly takes to be a hangover, expresses his surprise and delight. “Maybe you’re not as much ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cumberland

By Michael V. Smith

Closeted gay men can suffer excruciatingly, especially in society’s rougher quarters. Where platonic love between working men is still viewed with suspicion, romantic and/or sexual love is most certainly taboo. A challenge to that taboo ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Unless

By Carol Shields

Despite its provisional title, its hesitant, breath-in-the-throat half-title, Carol Shields’ Unless knows its own mind and isn’t afraid to speak it.In this, her 10th novel, Shields constructs a tangle of questions. What is goodness? What ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Dead Girls

By Nancy Lee

Dead Girls, the debut offering from Vancouver writer Nancy Lee, is completely free of the tentativeness or uncertainty shown by so many first-time authors. A loosely connected collection of short stories, Dead Girls heralds the ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Blur

By Michelle Berry

High-pulp authors from Raymond Chandler to Robert Ferrigno to the newest sensation, Bruce Wagner, have taken the beautiful horror of Los Angeles – its sheen, its viciousness, its generations of celebrity skin – and from ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Falling Woman

By Shaena Lambert

Many of the stories in Shaena Lambert’s The Falling Woman are “domestic” in the best sense of the word: they reveal all that is odd and resonant about family dynamics. Like Alice Munro’s work, Lambert’s ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-life Journey into Wild Land

Gardens of Shame: The Tragedy of Martin Kruze and the Sexual Abuse at Maple Leaf Gardens

Lambsquarters: Scenes from a Handmade Life

Invisible Shadows: A Black Woman’s Life in Nova Scotia

Doing the Heart Good

Cumberland

Unless

★ Dead Girls

Blur

The Falling Woman

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