Reviews

My Mother, My Translator

My Mother, My Translator

Jaspreet Singh’s new memoir, My Mother, My Translator, is a book full of silences.

By Jon Victor

Manikanetish

Manikanetish

A young woman returns to her Innu First Nation village to teach high school drama in Naomi Fontaine's novel.

By Linda Morra

Night Bus

Night Bus

Chinese cartoonist Zuo Ma's Night Bus is a book made of dreams.

By Eloisa Aquino

Music, Late and Soon

Music, Late and Soon

Robyn Sarah's memoir is a personal journey as gripping as it is profound.

By Malcolm Fraser

Fear the Mirror

Fear the Mirror

Cora Siré’s collection of memoir, stories, and essays reveals lives complicated by war, displacement, and immigration.

By Gina Roitman

Manam

Manam

The first novel by well-known Montreal journalist Rima Elkouri is layered, surprising, and transformative.

By Katia Grubisic

This Is My Real Name

This Is My Real Name

Cid V Brunet's memoir is a smooth read studded with golden nuggets of deft description and clever turns of phrase.

By Elise Moser

The Strange Scent of Saffron

The Strange Scent of Saffron

In Miléna Babin's novel rife with orphans, abandoned children, and a semi-feral fox, wildness is a dominant mode.

By Danielle Barkley

Waswanipi

Waswanipi

Jean-Yves Soucy's memoir Waswanipi is a short but very readable and important piece of historic literature.

By Daniel J. Rowe

A Boy Is Not a Ghost

A Boy Is Not a Ghost

A family's exile to a Soviet gulag is recounted in this tough but compelling YA novel.

By Dana Bath

Made-Up

Made-Up

Daphné B. captures the clash between beauty culture and progressive values in her third book, Made-Up.

By Yara El-Soueidi

I Am Ariel Sharon

I Am Ariel Sharon

Yara El-Ghadban's fictional take on the life of Ariel Sharon is anything but a typical historical novel.

By Jeff Miller