March 8th is International Women’s Day! Here’s a reading list, picked by the editorial team at The Miramichi Reader, to help you celebrate and get you thinking. 💭
Women Who Woke up the Law by Karin Wells
Reviewed by Lucy Black, 2025
“Wells has amplified the voices of those brave individuals whose advocacy reshaped the narrative for women’s rights in Canada. This is a significant case history that belongs in every library.”
Songs for the Brokenhearted by Ayelet Tsabari
Reviewed by Alison Manley, 2025
“Tsabari is unspooling a family saga, with secrets, buried truths and tragedies, and also applying a critical lens to identity, religion, and a colonial state.”
Poetry is Queer and She by Kirby
Reviewed by Susan Wismer, 2025
“I came to Poetry is Queer and She wanting books that centred queerness, not as literary theory, or as an intellectual experiment but as foundational, integral, normal— like breathing.”
When the World Fell Silent by Donna Alward
Reviewed by Sue Slade, 2024
“A historical fiction novel that follows two women who reside in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1917 … A story of loss, hope and redemption against the most impossible odds.”
Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery by Margaret Mowaczyk
Reviewed by Carrie Stanton, 2024
“Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery by Margaret Nowaczyk is sure to touch its reader directly where it’s aimed to do so — deep within the bone and directly into the heart.”
Girls, Interrupted by Lisa Whittington-Hill
Reviewed by Naomi MacKinnon, 2024
“The essays in Whittington-Hill’s book explore the ways in which pop culture has failed women over the decades, and is still failing women … Whittington-Hill’s writing style hooked me right away and kept me engaged and entertained. She’s funny, smart, and unapologetic.”
