Sonia Saikaley

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The Butcher of Park Ex and Other Semi-Truthful Tales by Andreas Kessaris

March 20, 2021March 19, 2021 by Sonia Saikaley

The Butcher of Park Ex is a humorous collection of personal stories inspired by the author's life growing up in Montreal's Park Extension neighbourhood, with Greek immigrant parents who never quite adapted to life in their new country.

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You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-King

January 7, 2021January 6, 2021 by Sonia Saikaley

Love can be beautiful and disastrous at the same time. In Sheung-King’s debut novel You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked., he brilliantly evokes the complexities of an intense romantic relationship with the use of lyrical language and folk tales that draw the reader in.

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Please Stand By by Carolyn Bennett

January 7, 2021November 22, 2020 by Sonia Saikaley

Carolyn Bennett’s debut novel Please Stand By is a fast-paced story about a woman trying to save the public television station in Edmonton where she freelances at. When a corporate man from Toronto is recruited to make changes to the … Continue reading

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Look After Her by Hannah Brown

January 7, 2021October 4, 2020 by Sonia Saikaley

Upon the death of their art-loving parents, thirteen and fourteen year old Jewish sisters are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister's forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna.