White Resin by Audrée Wilhelmy, trans. by Susan Ouriou
White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it.
Alison Manley
Discovering the Movies in New Brunswick: A History of Cinema by David Folster, edited by Marion Beyea
Discovering the Movies in New Brunswick: A History of Cinema by David Folster is one of those works where the author clearly enjoys the subject matter so much that the love with which the book is written makes you as enthusiastic as he was writing it.
Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah
With Hotline, Dimitri Nasrallah has written a vivid elegy to the 1980s, the years he first moved to Canada, bringing the era’s systemic challenges into the current moment through this deeply endearing portrait of struggle, perseverance, and bonding.
Rafael Has Pretty Eyes by Elaine McCluskey
The seventeen stories in Elaine McCluskey’s latest collection, Rafael Has Pretty Eyes, follow characters who have reached a four-way stop in life; some are deciding whether to follow the signs or defy them; others find a sinkhole forming beneath their feet.
Fear the Mirror by Cora Siré
In Fear the Mirror, Cora Siré brings together thirteen stories of moments that have marked the dark intersections within her own history.
Flora! A Woman in a Man’s World by Flora MacDonald and Geoffrey Stevens
Flora Isabel MacDonald – politician, humanitarian, adventurer, and role model for a generation of women – was known across Canada and beyond simply as Flora. In her memoir, co-authored by award-winning journalist and author Geoffrey Stevens, she tells her personal story for the very first time.
Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling by Esi Edugyan
An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade, Esi Edugyan.
The Blue Moth Motel by Olivia Robinson
The Blue Moth Motel deals with family dynamics, grief, and the concept of home.
Even the Sidewalk Could Tell: How I Came Out to My Wife, My Three Children, and the World by Alon Ozery
What does it cost to live an inauthentic life?
If anyone knows, it’s Alon Ozery. Born in Toronto to an Orthodox Jewish father and a British mother, raised in Israel, and educated in Canada, Alon didn’t come out of the closet until he had a wife and three children.
One Who Has Been Here Before by Becca Babcock
Contemporary Atlantic gothic fiction inspired by Nova Scotia’s notorious Goler clan.
Because Venus Crossed An Alpine Violet On The Day That I Was Born by Mona Høvring, trans. Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin
In a hotel, high up in a mountain village, two sisters aim to reconnect after distant years that contrast their close, almost twin-like upbringing. Martha has just been discharged from a sanatorium after a mental breakdown. Ella agrees to keep her company in the hope that the clean winter air will provide clarity—and a way back to their childhood connection.
On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance by Carlyn Zwarenstein
Part memoir, part history, part policy examination, and part roadmap for the future, On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance by Carlyn Zwarenstein is captivating, rage-inducing, and most important of all, helpful.
What Does the Wind Say? by Kamal Parmar
Centred around time, memory, and the change of seasons, Parmar has put together a collection that has us walk down the path of time, watch it pass and change, and be mystified by how it gets ahead of us.
I Am the Earth the Plants Grow Through by Jack Hannan
Introspective and lyrical, I am the Earth the Plants Grow Through by Jack Hannan takes us on a cross-country trip through time, away from Montreal of the 1970s and Montreal of the present day, following a love story and an art story.
Don’t Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye by Genevieve A. Chornenki
When Genevieve Chornenki escapes a brush with blindness, things never looked better-city pigeons, people, stainless steel pots. But questions about her experience linger: Who was responsible for her close call? Can she safeguard other people’s eyesight? How do our eyes work, anyway, and why do they give so much pleasure?
