Stand on the Sky

Although Aisulu loves her brother dearly, she is getting tired of living in his shadow. When an opportunity finally arises for her to shine on her own, she seizes it. While the premise of Stand ... Read More »

March 4, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

This Country of Mine

By Didier Leclair; Elaine Kennedy (trans.)

The thematic weight of Didier Leclair’s 2003 novel Ce pays qui est le mien, now in an English translation by Elaine Kennedy, announces itself first in the title. The novel focuses on Apollinaire, an immigrant ... Read More »

March 4, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Immigrant City

By David Bezmozgis

In his sophomore volume of short fiction, David Bezmozgis deepens his exploration of the fates and furies that beset Jewish immigrants as they struggle with the unwieldy claims of the past. Replete with the wry ... Read More »

February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

★ A Good Wife: Escaping the Life I Never Chose

By Samra Zafar with Meg Masters

Written in collaboration with author and editor Meg Masters and based on a 2017 article published in Toronto Life magazine, A Good Wife traces the heart-wrenching and empowering story of Samra Zafar, a cricket-loving Pakistani ... Read More »

February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

Provisionally Yours

By Antanas Sileika

Antanas Sileika’s bleak spy novel takes us into what for most readers will be unfamiliar territory: Lithuania just after the end of the First World War. Recently freed from German occupation and granted independence, the ... Read More »

February 28, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault

By Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee (eds.)

What does it mean to be a survivor of sexual assault? Faced with this question in a new collection of essays edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee, 12 writers respond with equal ... Read More »

February 25, 2019 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews

Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case

By Kent Roach

Settler or Indigenous, it’s impossible to approach Kent Roach’s Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case without baggage. As an Indigenous person, this might include still-fresh traumas – including the injury ... Read More »

February 25, 2019 | Filed under: Native Peoples, Politics & Current Affairs

Only Pretty Damned

By Niall Howell

Life behind the scenes at Rowland’s World Class Circus – the setting of Calgary writer Niall Howell’s striking debut novel – is a far cry from the bright lights and laughter of the big top. ... Read More »

February 21, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Case of Windy Lake

By Michael Hutchinson

Most mysteries featuring kid detectives – Nate the Great, Cam Jansen, the Boxcar Children, the Bobbsey Twins, and Harriet M. Welsch (better known as Harriet the Spy) – default to a white protagonist or a ... Read More »

February 21, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

The Center of the Universe

By Ria Voros

Grace Carter shares a name with her mother and grandmother, but the three generations of women have little else in common. Or so high-school student Grace thinks at the beginning of the latest novel by ... Read More »

February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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