Dreaming Home by Lucian Childs
A queer coming-of-age—and coming-to-terms—follows the aftereffects of betrayal and poignantly explores the ways we search for home.
Contemporary Fiction
Coq by Ali Bryan
Ten years after her raucously entertaining debut novel, Roost, Ali Bryan checks in with Claudia and her family to bring readers up to date on their latest adventures.
Rose Addams by Margie Taylor
Margie Taylor’s Rose Addams is an insight into the life of a woman who is beginning her third act, an empathetic and incisive look at the problems of those just exiting middle age while attempting to keep up with a rapidly-changing world.
Mukbang by Fanie Demeule, Translated by Anita Anand
Mukbang is a grimy, shocking, and darkly funny dive into our relationships with food, self-image, and intimacy.
Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene by Jaspreet Singh
In his playful yet deeply serious third novel Jaspreet Singh links a fossil fraud in India, an ice core archive in Canada, and a climate change laboratory in Germany.
Welcome to the Weird America by A.G. Pasquella
A.G. Pasquella’s Welcome to the Weird America brings together three of his brilliant, fabulist novellas, each of which is filled with strange language and extraordinary surprises. Plus, an interview with the author.
The Rooftop Garden by Menaka Raman-Wilms
The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back.
The Ice Widow by Anne M. Smith-Nochasak
The Ice Widow is a different kind of love story, yet one more common than we may know.
Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann
By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love.
King of Hope by Kim Conklin
King of Hope brings Southern Ontario Gothic with an environmental twist, through the lens of a small town that’s been facing radical environmental uncertainty for generations.
Radioland by Matt Cahill
In Matt Cahill’s novel, Radioland, something evil is stalking the streets of Toronto and people are dying in grisly fashion.
Excerpt: Hold on please, Emily by Doris Siu
An excerpt from Doris Siu’s novel, Hold On Please, Emily.
Noisemaker by Andy Tolson
Part ghost story, part fictionalized memoir, Noisemaker is a love letter to when thrashing guitars, pounding drums, and the three minute pop song ruled the world.
A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita Anand
A story of identity, connection and forgiveness, A Convergence of Solitudes shares the lives of two families across Partition of India, Operation Babylift in Vietnam, and two referendums in Quebec.
The Sisters Sputnik: A Novel, by Terri Favro
Ingenious, smoothly written, and funny, at times bitingly so, Terri Favro’s The Sisters Sputnik is well worth a read.