Ghost Face is Greg Santos’ fourth book of poetry. I interpreted it as a loose narrative in verse, divided into three parts – “I/You,” "Saudade," and “Ode to Joy.” It’s a story that begins with a pregnant teenage girl escaping the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. It then follows her child, adopted by a family descended from Portuguese and Spanish immigrants, as he attempts to negotiate the complex cruelties and blessings of history, family, and identity.
With her latest work, author Dianne Graves attempts to showcase a side of World War I that many Canadians may never have heard of before: that of the women who stood in the background of battle.
Linda Leith's The Girl From Dream City is an intimate and engaging story of her journey from a challenging girlhood in Northern Ireland to becoming a novelist, translator, and one of Canada’s leading literary curators.
Dr. Samir Shaheen-Hussain's Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada jolts the reader from complacency page after page, detail after detail, pushing us beyond individual incidents to an understanding of a bigger picture.
With Represented Immobilized, a graphic memoir, Rick Trembles takes us through a series of autobiographical strips, each describing a different moment in the artist’s life.
The third instalment in H. Nigel Thomas’ planned quartet on the Caribbean Canadian immigrant experience shows the rare ability to telescope a whole culture into an intimately scaled frame, deploying a dispassionate eye, pin-sharp dialogue, and deft touches of humour.
