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Excerpt: FINDING EDWARD, A Novel by Sheila Murray

May 13, 2022 by James M. Fisher
An excerpt from Sheila Murray's debut novel, Finding Edward from Cormorant Books.
Categories Excerpt, Fiction, First Book Tags excerpt, fiction

Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid

March 14, 2022 by Mala Rai
The Canadian first lady of Iceland pens a book about why this tiny nation is leading the charge in gender equality, in the vein of The Moment of Lift.
Categories Culture, First Book, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Ontario, Social Issues, Social Studies, Travel Tags gender equality, Iceland, non-fiction, sprakkar, women's studies

Antonyms for Daughter by Jenny Boychuk

January 3, 2022 by Pearl Pirie
Antonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuk's poetry debut, addresses a harrowing subject: the loss of the poet's mother to addiction. Deploying a range of forms and techniques astonishing in a first collection, Boychuk creates unsparing scenes of their complicated life together.
Categories First Book, Poetry Tags death, debut collection, family, Grief, loss, poetry

The Blue Moth Motel by Olivia Robinson

January 3, 2022December 13, 2021 by Alison Manley
The Blue Moth Motel deals with family dynamics, grief, and the concept of home.
Categories Fiction, First Book Tags family, Grief, Home

Review of Pebble Swing by Isabella Wang and None of This Belongs to Me by Ellie Sawatsky

December 6, 2021 by Catherine Owen
Two debut poetry collections from Nightwood Editions are reviewed by Catherine Owen, "Pebble Swing" by Isabella Wang, and "None of this Belongs to Me" by Ellie Sawatsky.
Categories First Book, Poetry Tags debut collection, Nightwood Editions, poetry

Even the Sidewalk Could Tell: How I Came Out to My Wife, My Three Children, and the World by Alon Ozery

February 7, 2022December 6, 2021 by Alison Manley
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.
Categories First Book, Memoirs Tags coming out, gay, memoir

Gold Pours by Aurore Gatwenzi

November 8, 2021 by Rachel Fernandes
In this debut collection by emerging poet Aurore Gatwenzi, a stunning new voice emerges as she shares the experience of being young and Black in northern Ontario.
Categories First Book, Poetry Tags debut collection, poetry

The Pump by Sydney Warner Brooman

May 25, 2022September 19, 2021 by Anuja Varghese
For fans of Shirley Jackson and Alice Munro, a Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue.
Categories Fiction, First Book, Short Fiction, Short Stories Tags short stories, Southern Ontario

Maker by Jim Upton

August 18, 2021 by Alison Manley
Nicole Fortin is on the cusp of realizing a long-held dream when her life takes a sudden turn. Instead of participating in the Olympic Games, she finds herself struggling to master the challenging physical demands of her job in an aerospace plant and win the confidence of her male colleagues.
Categories Fiction, First Book Tags feminist, fiction, First Book, labour, Unions

Watershed by Doreen Vanderstoop

August 15, 2021 by Ian Colford
In her debut novel, Watershed, Doreen Vanderstoop envisions a future in which water, a life-giving resource that we take for granted, is not easily obtainable.
Categories Cli-Fi, Creative Fiction, Fiction, First Book Tags Alberta, Cli-fi, dystopian, dystopian fiction, Farming, post-apocalyptic, Water

The Knowing Animals by Emily Skov-Nielsen

July 28, 2021 by Nicola Vulpe
In Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, The Knowing Animals, our consciousness is interconnected with the surrounding trees, bugs, rivers, atmospheres, and cosmos.
Categories First Book, Poetry Tags debut collection, poetry

We Two Alone by Jack Wang

January 3, 2022July 21, 2021 by Ian Colford
A masterful collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years, We Two Alone is Jack Wang’s astonishing debut work of fiction.
Categories Fiction, First Book, Short Fiction, Short Stories Tags Chinese, debut collection, immigrants, racism, short stories

Home of the Floating Lily: Stories by Silmy Abdullah

July 18, 2021 by Noor Ferdous
Set in both Canada and Bangladesh, the eight stories in Home of the Floating Lily follow the lives of everyday people as they navigate the complexities of migration, displacement, love, friendship, and familial conflict.
Categories Cultural, Fiction, First Book, Short Fiction, Short Stories Tags Bangladesh, Canada, culture, Family & Relationships, First Book, immigration

Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva

June 29, 2021 by Ian Colford
In her sure-handed debut volume of short fiction, Good Citizens Need Not Fear, Maria Reva writes with an insider’s familiarity about the last days of the Soviet Union and what followed in the months and years after the Communist regime’s ignominious collapse.
Categories Fiction, First Book, Short Fiction Tags Communism, debut collection, Humour, irony, Soviet Union

Dear Hearts by Barbara Miller Biles

June 19, 2021 by Ian Colford
Dear Hearts is a collection of character-driven stories that are whimsical, sometimes magical, unsentimental yet poignant, and focus on the ways in which girls and women who were teenagers in the 1960s experienced the changing cultural values shaped by feminism.
Categories Feminist, Fiction, First Book, Short Fiction Tags females, feminist, Inanna, maturity, small town
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