Cover of Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva, translated by Rahul Bery. The cover is black, with bright colourful graphics showing an insect.

Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva, trans. Rahul Bery

An object of disgust, Dengue Boy is marked from birth as an outcast. Beset by a sudden thirst for blood, which only female mosquitoes possess, Dengue Boy realizes in adolescence that she is really Dengue Girl and sets out to exact her revenge on the wealthy people and tourists for whom her mother toils tirelessly.

Blaze Island by Catherine Bush

Blaze Island opens with a Category Five hurricane off one of Newfoundland’s most northern Islands, a ferry ride from Gander. Rain and wind batter the Island and the home of Milan Wells and his daughter. A disturbance from the front door finds a young man, soaked and unconscious. Catherine Bush tells us a story of …

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