In Hard Is the Journey, award-winning historian and researcher Lily Chow exposes the difficult history of Chinese Canadians in the Kootenay, shedding light on the stories of those who risked everything and often lost their lives in building the Canada we know today.
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.
If I had to pick one book that managed to capture the essence of 2020 without trying to speak about 2020 – a year we’ll be processing for decades to come – Hour of the Crab by Patricia Robertson would be up there.
Jael Richardson’s debut novel, Gutter Child (2021, HarperCollins Canada)* is a forceful one that shines …
Policing Black Lives is the work of Montreal-based Black feminist activist and educator, Robyn Maynard. Maynard brings her considerable expertise to this book, which is packed with information about the history and continued oppression of Black people in Canada.
Set in the aptly named fictional town of Feckless Bay, The Worst Dogs is Matthew …
As the Black Lives Matter movement advances, there have been many, many new books released …
In Dominoes at the Crossroads Kaie Kellough maps an alternate nation–one populated by Caribbean Canadians who hopscotch across the country. The characters navigate race, class, and coming-of-age.
Exile Blues could be one of the most important Black History novels to appear in recent years, and Douglas Gary Freeman is a writer worthy of consideration.
The title and subtitle pretty much sum up what this book is about: being black …
For the third year in a row, Naomi of the Consumed by Ink book review …
[dropcap]Award[/dropcap]-winning author Jon Tattrie, whose most recent book, Redemption Songs (2016, Potterfield Press) was about …
The following review is by Naomi MacKinnon of Consumed by Ink, and is reproduced here …
[dropcap]Subtitled [/dropcap]”A Novel of Peacetime & War”, Gravitational Fields (2016) by Harry Rajchgot is an …
When I first received Blackbird Calling (Quattro Books, 2016) and started reading it, I soon put …