Identity The Miramichi Reader

Music from a Strange Planet by Barbara Black

May 23, 2021March 25, 2021 by Bill Arnott

Off-beat, provocative, philosophical, Music from a Strange Planet traces the fault lines of identity and emotional attachment. Grief, tenderness, and longing soak the pages, admitting the reader into the intimate places of the heart.

The Anna Van Valkenberg Interview

October 25, 2020October 22, 2020 by James M. Fisher

“A town is a tin of children in an ocean,” writes Anna van Valkenburg in her debut poetry collection, a rich, unpredictable, and deeply surreal exploration of identity and the multiple contradictions we each embody. These poems, set in locations … Continue reading

What the Living Do by Maggie Dwyer

October 15, 2020 by Bill Arnott

Until the age of twelve, Georgia Lee Kay-Stern believed she was Jewish - the story of her Cree birth family had been kept secret. Now she's living on her own and attending first year university, and with her adoptive parents on sabbatical in Costa Rica, the old questions are back. What does it mean to be Native? How could her life have been different?

Limerence by Jon Tattrie

January 9, 2021September 25, 2015 by James M. Fisher

Can a man have it all? The warmth of a solid family and the challenges of a fruitful career?These questions lie at the heart of Limerence, a fun novel exploring the lives of two people seeking very different ways to be men.