1.
Series:
An Honest Woman
Paperback
JoAnn McCaig
9781771871785
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 15, 2019
If there ever was a time and place to explore the territory of mature women and their journeys this would be the time. The subjects of sex, passion, confidence in JoAnn McCaig’s An Honest Woman are beautifully played out against society’s stereotypes of women as they age and as they confront the truths of themselves outside the societal frameworks in which they have been boxed. There are metafictional elements turned loose in this novel. First, there is an intensely self-conscious narrator and second, there are characters who live inside fictio...
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2.
Series:
Lost Boys
Paperback
Darci Bysouth
9781771871754
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 15, 2018
Each of the (eighteen) stories in Darci Bysouth’s debut collection Lost Boys documents a world in the process of unravelling, as the inhabitants of these richly drawn narratives face losing what they hold most dear. The rivalry between two brothers in "Meat" mirrors a nation divided, with bitter consequences. "Cryptodome" sets two sisters’ guilty collusions against Mount St. Helens, which is on the brink of eruption. In "Petey", a father realises the ghastly implications of his daughter’s all powerful love for him. A teenage girl outgrows her ...
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3.
Series:
Corridor Nine
Paperback
Sophie Stocking
9781771871815
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 15, 2019
Seven years ago Bernadette Macomber did everything she could to cut her ties to her father Fabian, his opiate addiction, gun collection, and increasingly bizarre behaviour. She moved with her husband and four children, leaving no return address. Now, following his suicide, her father paradoxically makes contact again, and Bernadette finds herself not liberated but tethered to him ever more tightly by the bonds of familial guilt. Desperate for absolution, Bernie returns to her father’s home to hunt for evidence of his insanity and to try and und...
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4.
Series:
The Eater of Dreams
Paperback
Kat Cameron
9781771871846
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 15, 2019
The past haunts the characters in The Eater of Dreams. In fifteen interconnected stories, Kat Cameron’s vivid characters — teachers, singers, writers, and misfits — examine the inner fractures in their lives. A woman muses about her miscarried child while watching a friend’s daughter play; an opera singer in Edmonton is stalked by an abusive ex-lover; a student’s story of bullying reminds a woman of her own childhood traumas; a woman cuts out the heart of a faithless man; the ghost of Lafcadio Hearn haunts the bedroom of a grieving teacher in J...
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5.
Series:
Travellers May Still Return
Paperback
Michael Kenyon
9781771871877
$20.00
FICTION
Sep 15, 2019
Jesse Green, the young narrator of the first novella, wants to escape the developed world (Vancouver) and with her boyfriend takes a meandering trip down to Panama, the land bridge to South America. The central short story has an ambiguous setting and period, and is about the loss of a child. Charles Darwin, hero of the closing novella, whose historical namesake found his life work’s inspiration in South America, finds his inspiration in studying village life. The collection takes its visual form (novella-story-novella) from the shape of the Am...
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