contemporary fiction The Miramichi Reader

Lullaby: Revisiting Ru by Kim Thúy

November 8, 2021 by Cynthia Sharp

Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow--of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters.

The Running Trees by Amber McMillan

August 12, 2021 by Alison Manley

A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads readers into a series of conversations — through phonelines, acts in a play, and a rewound recording of a police interrogation — to reveal characters in fumbling bouts of brutality, reflection, isolation, and love.

Dig by Terry Doyle

May 22, 2019 by James M. Fisher

Terry Doyle's collection of twelve short stories has been eagerly anticipated since he won the Percy Janes First Novel Award in 2017 for Union, an as-yet unpublished manuscript.