TMR Star | The Miramichi Reader

A blue-neutral illustrated image of a home by the ocean, surrounded by palm trees. A bright yellow curved line cuts through the middle of the image, coming out of two yellow open palms at the bottom of the image. The yellow line leads to a yellow temple at the top of the image. The title runs horizontally across the middle of the image on a dark blue-green block. The "a" falls below the "the", almost falling out of the block. The author's name is over the temple at the top of the image in blue-green text, and the translator's name is at the bottom coming out of the two hands.

The Singularity by Balsam Karam, trans. Saskia Vogel

February 25, 2024 by Clementine Oberst

In a coastal city, a displaced woman, having searched for her missing daughter in vain for weeks, throws herself into the ocean. Another woman, pregnant with her first child, witnesses the suicide. In the first part of the book, a spiral-like structure with the disappearance at its center documents the weeks before and after the …

Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira

June 1, 2024January 29, 2024 by Bryn Robinson

Dayspring is an immersive, mesmerizing work, one that wrenches beauty from cataclysm and finds bliss in apocalypse.

The Adversary by Michael Crummey

January 29, 2024 by Alison Manley

The Adversary by Michael Crummey is a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption.

Home is the Lands and Rivers: A Girl Called Echo Omnibus by Katherena Vermette

June 24, 2024January 15, 2024 by Christina Barber

This special omnibus edition of Katherena Vermette’s best-selling series features an all-new foreword by Chantal Fiola, a historical timeline, and an essay about Métis being and belonging by Brenda Macdougall.

Fordmates by Ivo Maravec

January 1, 2024 by Lucy E. M. Black

The stories in Fordmates ricochet headlong between comedy and tragedy, balancing the tedium and gruelling demands of the automotive assembly line with the workers’ gutsy attempts to preserve spirits and some semblance of sanity.

The Wish Doctor Will See You Now: The Wish Doctor by Mark E. Shupe

July 3, 2024January 1, 2024 by Sue Slade

What if wishes you made turned out wrong, and you didn’t even know it? What if one of those bad wishes is about to ruin your life? Well then, you better make an appointment with the Wish Doctor.

This is How You Start to Disappear by Astrid Blodgett

January 2, 2024December 31, 2023 by Mala Rai

This Is How You Start to Disappear shows all the heartbreaking ways we evolve when coping with change or trauma. A TMR Star Review!

Mastercraft Thinking: Alternator by Chris Banks

December 31, 2023December 30, 2023 by Pearl Pirie

Alternator blends catastrophe and consciousness, modern living and past transgressions, off-kilter imagery and the “hidden room” of the unsayable to construct a polyphonic triumph.