The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery
The Unravelling of Ou by Hollay Ghadery touches upon mothering, sexual identity, family dynamics and voice.
literary fiction
A Friend of Dorothy’s by Richard Willett
The focus of the book is that compassionate curiosity of the narrator Eric as he tries to puzzle out his life, his times.
Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva, trans. Rahul Bery
An object of disgust, Dengue Boy is marked from birth as an outcast. Beset by a sudden thirst for blood, which only female mosquitoes possess, Dengue Boy realizes in adolescence that she is really Dengue Girl and sets out to exact her revenge on the wealthy people and tourists for whom her mother toils tirelessly.
In the Western Night by Nolan D. Insyte
Nolan D. Insyte conjures a milieu that feels at once raw and surreal, calling to mind the spectral streets of Dylan’s Desolation Row and, in a sly echo of the author’s own forward, Wilde’s Vera; or, The Nihilists, where misfits and nihilists collide in a kind of gauzy, narcotic ballet.
The Atoner of Alberni by Ed Cepka
The first utterance by Larry, the raucous novel’s restless narrator, indicates just how far things did progress from the book’s early days as a sturdy pioneer saga: “I’m grateful for this cell and its vinyl padded walls and floor that they laughably justify so that I don’t harm myself.”
Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt
With their time together limited, teenage tragedy is inevitable – yet James becomes more himself with each passing day.
Excerpt: Songs for the Broken Hearted by Ayelet Tsabari
Excerpt from Songs for The Brokenhearted: A Novel by Ayelet Tsabari ©2024. Published by HarperCollins Canada. All rights reserved.
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
We follow Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man who he never knew and a white British mother, forever an outsider in his conservative village, who receives a scholarship to a local boarding school.
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit by Nadine Sander-Green
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit is a story centered around Millicent, a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse after graduating from college, where she focused more on poetry than journalism. Yet off to journalism she goes, to work at the Golden Nugget, a failing daily newspaper with three staff.
We Are Already Ghosts by Kit Dobson
There is a lyricism to Kit Dobson’s prose in We Are Already Ghosts, a way of revealing detail that is at once both elegant and calculated in its precision, distinguishing the novel by its tempered restraint.
Held by Anne Michaels
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault.
The Future by Catherine Leroux
Unlike some dystopian books, The Future is suffused with a sense of optimism despite the sometimes-dark components . . .
Everything Affects Everyone by Shawna Lemay
Everything Affects Everyone, is a novel about listening, about how women speak to one another, and about the power of the question.
Full Fadom Five by David C.C. Bourgeois
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.
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn’t know she exists.
