Wayne Ng's novel teaches us that family certainly provides us with the fuel for our own growth, although this sometimes means being far from their reach.
By Phoebe Yī Lìng
Fiction
Caroline Dawson digs up and grieves such disowned fragments of self in her gripping autobiographical novel.
By Kimberly Bourgeois
Marie-Claire Blais' novel embodies the joy and slipperiness of existence – it reminds us that life is a continuous yet rhythmic flow.
By Emma Dollery
Chris Bergeron's novel mines elements of her own past and present to project trans lives into an unstable future.
By H Felix Chau Bradley
Norman Nawrocki's “fictional chronicle” of the seven-month 2012 Quebec student strike is a love letter to a particular political moment.
By JB Staniforth
Bruce Sudds' novel draws on Ireland's Great Famine to tell the multigenerational story of a family of immigrants.
By Alexander Hackett
In Catherine Leroux's dystopian novel, we find an ecosystem created not by shared history but by shared engagement.
By Bronwyn Averett
Chava Rosenfarb's collection provides an important portrait of survivors’ lives in the immediate postwar years.
By Norman Ravvin
Michelle Syba’s stories carry a universal quality, encouraging readers to reflect on their lived experiences.
By Ariane Fournier
Andrew Steinmetz's reflective, memorial novel is set in the Montreal music scene of the 1980s and '90s.
By Emily Mernin
Valérie Bah's intertwined stories tell the tales of young queer characters from Montreal’s Black diasporas.
By Léa Murat-Ingles
Michel Jean's novel based on his grandmother's life is a love story laced with loss.
By Roxane Hudon