BOOK REVIEWS

The Music Game

By Stéfanie Clermont; J.C. Sutcliffe; trans.

In the prologue to Stéfanie Clermont’s debut novel – a multiple award winner in Quebec – she paints a portrait of an urban oasis. It is a spot in the Montreal neighbourhood of Hochelaga where ... Read More »

March 16, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Boys and Girls Screaming

By Kern Carter

Can bringing together a group of traumatized friends and school acquaintances help eight teenagers overcome their struggles and move on with their lives? This is the premise of Kern Carter’s latest novel, Boys and Girls ... Read More »

March 15, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Daughters of the Deer

By Danielle Daniel

In her debut novel for adults, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award–winning children’s author Danielle Daniel mines her family history to tell an affecting and difficult story of colonialism, love, loss, and resilience based on two ... Read More »

March 14, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Moonwalking

By Zetta Elliott and Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Set in Brooklyn at the height of the Reagan era, Moonwalking follows two boys, JJ and Pie, as they navigate a world entrenched in the political and racial mire of a deeply divided America. Pie ... Read More »

March 9, 2022 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower

By Charlie Angus

To many, the Canadian North exists as an idea – a construct based on a loose, romanticized mythology curated by those who colonized it. It is cottage country to some, the untouched wilds to others, ... Read More »

March 8, 2022 | Filed under: Reviews

Muinji’j Asks Why: The Story of the Mi’kmaq and the Shubenacadie Residential School

By Shanika MacEachern and Breighlynn MacEachern (Muinji’j); Zeta Paul

Mi’kmaq writers Shanika MacEachern and her daughter, third-grader Breighlynn MacEachern (Muinji’j), explain the traumatic impact of residential schools on the Mi’kmaq community in Muinji’j Asks Why: The Story of the Mi’kmaq and the Shubenacadie Residential ... Read More »

March 7, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

By Eliza Reid

In 2003, when Canadian Eliza Reid moved to Iceland “for love,” she was already embarking on a unique experience; as recently as 1996, as Reid writes in her new book, Secrets of the Sprakkar, “a ... Read More »

March 2, 2022 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

★ Meet Mary Ann Shadd

By Elizabeth MacLeod and Mike Deas; ill.

Through ingenuity and persistence, Mary Ann Shadd worked to change people’s lives for the better. She learned the importance of supporting the Black community while still a child: her parents were anti-slavery activists who used ... Read More »

March 1, 2022 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

My Two-Faced Luck

By Brett Josef Grubisic

“Fifty-nine-year-old homosexual found guilty of murdering an elderly widow at sea on a cruise ship.” This snippet from a criminology reference text provides a starting point for the novel My Two-Faced Luck, Brett Josef Grubisic’s ... Read More »

February 22, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Troupers

By Richard Scarsbrook

In his 2020 volume On Nostalgia, David Berry points out that the Greek root of “nostalgia” refers to a condition resembling homesickness or, more literally, a pain associated with home. This is particularly germane to ... Read More »

February 16, 2022 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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