Fiction

Naniki

Naniki

Oonya Kempadoo's novel is a love letter to the Caribbean and its light-flecked waters.

By Val Rwigema

Catinat Boulevard

Catinat Boulevard

Caroline Vu’s most ambitious book yet takes a bold approach to her themes of race and cultural identity.

By Olivia Shan

Here Is Still Here

Here Is Still Here

Sivan Slapak’s prose touches on truths about aging, family, friendship, and what makes a life.

By Tina Wayland

The Cat Looked Back

The Cat Looked Back

What happened to Mme Ménard, and where is her cat? Who started the fire that engulfed the townhouses, and whose body was found in the ashes?

By Sharon Morrisey

Love and Rain

Love and Rain

Carmela Circelli’s debut novel is a psychological, philosophical, and often poetic page-turner thrumming with musical mentions.

By Kimberly Bourgeois

Sadie X

Sadie X

Clara Dupuis-Morency's novel is a complex weaving of narrative and thematic layers.

By Alexander Taurozzi

Our Lady of Mile End

Our Lady of Mile End

Sarah Gilbert considers the consequences of gentrification, and how the places we inhabit shape our relationships.

By Ariella Kharasch

Do You Remember Being Born?

Do You Remember Being Born?

Sean Michaels' new novel is about collaboration and exchange – big tech with the arts, author with reader.

By Emily Mernin

An Unruly Little Animal

An Unruly Little Animal

Scott Randall's debut highlights the absurdities of the human condition through a day in fifth grader Darby Tamm's life.

By Nadia Trudel

Back in the Land of the Living

Back in the Land of the Living

Eva Crocker's latest novel explores moving to Montreal from a small city as a queer person in search of more.

By Alexandra Trnka

Little Fury

Little Fury

Casey Bell's book takes heavy themes and wraps them up in fantastical settings, neatly tangling them together through delicate, beautiful prose.

By Roxane Hudon

Blacklion

Blacklion

Luke Francis Beirne's novel is a romance and espionage thriller set against the layered geopolitical context of Ireland in the 1970s.

By Sharon Morrisey