With seven stories and a novella, the book nicely balances cohesiveness and variety.
By Elise Moser
Fiction
The novel’s defining trait is its Technicolor catalogue of hard-boiled slang, an ambitious feat in and of itself.
By Evie Faber
These climactic interventions ferry queer desire into the collective imagination.
By Danielle Douez
The greatest strength of this book is Tremblay’s evocative portrayal of art addiction.
By Karolina Roman
The novel builds a vivid and evocative picture of Asha’s childhood in a house with green verandahs and mango trees.
By Priscilla Jolly
Susan Grundy's novel excels as a study of Canadian intergenerational identity.
By Kate Kolberg
In her latest novel, Marianne Ackerman returns to the landscape of her childhood in Prince Edward County.
By Alexandra Sweny
Each page is filled with capsule-like observations of the physical world rebounding off her innermost thoughts.
By Sharon Morrisey
Marie-Claire Blais' final novel is meant to push past limits and ends.
By India Das-Brown
The Unfinished World reminds us of the power of storytelling, of remembering those we have lost and learning from them.
By Roxane Hudon
The stories remain hopeful and strangely optimistic, and underline the power of even a small change.
By Natalia Yanchak
Writing in the immersive second person, Rosso entwines her reader with her unnamed narrator’s experiences.
By Paisley Conrad