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This is the House that Luke Built by Violet Browne

March 27, 2023 by Heather McBriarty

This Is the House That Luke Built deftly explores existential questions about what it means to be alive.

We Have Never Lived On Earth: Stories by Kasia Van Schaik

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 by Wanda Baxter

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa.

Full Fadom Five by David C.C. Bourgeois

March 13, 2023 by Lori Green

In Full Fadom Five the past is always present, and the characters always at the mercy of their legacies: those they carry forward, and those they try to leave behind.

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.

The Joanne Gallant Interview

August 15, 2021 by James M. Fisher

Joanne Gallant is a pediatric nurse, wife and mother. She recently wrote her first book, A Womb in the Shape of a Heart, a memoir about her numerous miscarriages in her attempts to have children. A review of her book can be found here. It will be released by Nimbus Publishing in September 2021. She lives in Nova Scotia.

Home of the Floating Lily: Stories by Silmy Abdullah

June 1, 2022July 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.

We, Jane by Aimee Wall

May 14, 2021March 21, 2021 by Gemma Marr

There is so much to say about Aimee Wall’s debut novel We, Jane. In a tight 200 pages, Wall’s poetic prose chronicles the complicated relationships between women of different generations and life experiences. Through these connections, readers are exposed to the complex geography of reproductive rights and to legacies of local knowledge.

Dirty Birds by Morgan Murray*

October 7, 2022January 9, 2021 by Sarah Butland

In late 2008, as the world’s economy crumbles and Barack Obama ascends to the White House, the remarkably unremarkable Milton Ontario – not to be confused with Milton, Ontario – leaves his parents’ basement in Middle-of-Nowhere, Saskatchewan, and sets forth to find fame, fortune, and love in the Euro-lite electric sexuality of Montreal.