Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive
All of Flahive’s characters – much like the versatility of her humorous prose – wade deep beneath the glistening surface, and work to foster security and optimism despite all odds.
Hannah Briggs
Yellow Birds by Karen Green
Green’s tender depiction of becoming an adult will comfort you like an old favourite song you have not heard in years, resonating more clearly now with time and retrospection.
Lucid by Jenna Boholij
As she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cake in the opening of Lucid, Charlie Marin reveals herself to be the antagonistic force driving Jenna Boholij’s literary thriller.
Charlie has a successful job, compassionate family and friends, and a boyfriend in Winnipeg, but she cannot move past the death of her twin Cara, who died at age thirteen. The details of how she died are hidden away, but this loss makes Charlie numb to her circumstances and all possibilities for her future.
