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By Allison Baggio

Growing up, Maya Devine never understood why her half-Irish mother dragged her to Hindu temple, or made her stand on the streetcorners of Saskatoon handing out passages from the Baghavad Gita. Maya has always been ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Gayla Reid

Gayla Reid wins awards – the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Journey Prize, the Marian Engel Award, to name a few – and deservedly so. Her writing is lush and highly charged; her characters fully ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

By Rebecca Rosenblum

The persistence of hope and humanity within the sometimes demoralizing grind of a corporate environment propels Rebecca Rosenblum’s new collection of linked short stories. Rosenblum followed her Metcalf-Rooke Award–winning 2008 debut collection, Once, with Road ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

By Ami McKay

With The Virgin Cure, the long-awaited follow-up to her best-selling 2006 debut, The Birth House, Ami McKay once again examines an element of the lives of girls and women history often ignores. This time, McKay ... Read More »

November 7, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels