Why I Wrote This Book: Issue #35 — Friends of TMR Fall Releases!
Featuring Bill Arnott, Hollay Ghadery, Lucy Black, and Wayne Ng
Featuring Bill Arnott, Hollay Ghadery, Lucy Black, and Wayne Ng
Class Lessons: Stories of Vulnerable Youth by Lucy E.M. Black is a stunning collection. Fictionalized to protect the identities of its characters, this is a gritty account of vulnerable youth in high school by a real-life career educator and author, Lucy Black. Black has brought her career’s worth of experience into Class Lessons. We meet …
Exploring the intergenerational consequences of trauma, including those of a Holocaust survivor and a woman imprisoned during the Iranian Revolution, Stella’s Carpet weaves together the overlapping lives of those stepping outside the shadows of their own harrowing histories to make conscious decisions about how they will choose to live while forging new understandings of family, forgiveness and reconciliation.
Lucy and Michael are very talented artists and giving artists, each in their own right. As a couple, they are truly dynamic. They complement each other, as well as the world they live in.
The Brickworks by Lucy E. M. Black will sweep its readers back in time to the early 1900s when the spark of imagination and technology was on the cusp of igniting.
Lucy E.M. Black is the author of The Marzipan Fruit Basket and Eleanor Courtown, Black’s award-winning short stories have been published in Britain, Ireland, USA and Canada.
An excerpt from Stella’s Carpet by Lucy E. M. Black, coming out in the fall.
Told in beautifully crafted prose, it is Black’s incomparable voice–her uncanny humour and an astonishing ear for dialogue–that renders The Brickworks both remarkable and unforgettable.
By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
Here are some excellent queer titles for Pride Month, recommended by our editors!
It’s that time of the year! I asked our whole team what their favourite books of the year were and received back more than 50 titles!!! Here are some of the standouts, and what our excellent reviewers had to say about them:
From the first story, I was captivated by the complex drama of the Shane family and their lives in rural Idaho during the early 90s.
May is Jewish Heritage Month! Here are some excellent recommended reads from our editors to take you to the end of the month – and beyond!
If you liked Janie Chang’s previous book, The Porcelain Moon: A Novel of France, the Great War and Forbidden Love, you’ll love The Phoenix Crown with main character Suling, who is like the long-lost twin of Pauline with one crucial difference, and there are cameos by characters from Porcelain Moon in La Pagode in Paris, France.
Mayoff’s exuberant novel, The Island Gospel According to Samson Grief …