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The Secret Lives of Mothers and Daughters by Anita Kushwaha
The Secret Lives of Mothers and Daughters by Anita KushwahaHarperAvenue, January 2020Shifting viewpoints reveal how the lives of several South Asian Canadian women are linked through adoption.I am always up for stories about women's lives, especially those that describe lives different from mine....
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The Secret Lives of Mothers and Daughters by Anita KushwahaHarperAvenue, January 2020Shifting viewpoints reveal how the lives of several South Asian Canadian women are linked through adoption.I am always up for stories about women's lives, especially those that describe lives different from mine....
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Rabbit Foot Bill by Helen Humphreys
Rabbit Foot Bill by Helen HumphreysHarperCollins, August 2020A poetic novel based on a true story of friendship between a boy and a murderer in mid-twentieth century Saskatchewan.The characters in Rabbit Foot Bill are the kind at which Helen Humphreys excels in bringing to life: emotionally dista...
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Rabbit Foot Bill by Helen HumphreysHarperCollins, August 2020A poetic novel based on a true story of friendship between a boy and a murderer in mid-twentieth century Saskatchewan.The characters in Rabbit Foot Bill are the kind at which Helen Humphreys excels in bringing to life: emotionally dista...
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Indians on Vacation by Thomas King
Indians on Vacation by Thomas KingHarperCollins, August 2020A funny novel about living with depression and despair.Mimi Bull Shield, from the Blackfoot Nation in Alberta, and her husband Blackbird Mavrias, who is of Greek and Cherokee descent, travel to Europe in search of Mimi's uncle's medicine...
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Indians on Vacation by Thomas KingHarperCollins, August 2020A funny novel about living with depression and despair.Mimi Bull Shield, from the Blackfoot Nation in Alberta, and her husband Blackbird Mavrias, who is of Greek and Cherokee descent, travel to Europe in search of Mimi's uncle's medicine...
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Swimmers in Winter by Faye Guenther
Swimmers in Winter by Faye GuentherInvisible Publishing, August 2020This collection contains three pairs of astute stories about Canadian lesbians, the first one starting in the 1940s and the final one taking place sometime in our future.In the title story, lesbian women live an underground life ...
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Swimmers in Winter by Faye GuentherInvisible Publishing, August 2020This collection contains three pairs of astute stories about Canadian lesbians, the first one starting in the 1940s and the final one taking place sometime in our future.In the title story, lesbian women live an underground life ...
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The Ghost in the House by Sara O'Leary
The Ghost in the House by Sara O'LearyDoubleday Canada, July 2020In this brief, amusing and romantic novel about grief and letting go, Fay haunts her husband Alec after she dies in their Vancouver home.Alec can't see Fay. He looks straight through me. I wonder...
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The Ghost in the House by Sara O'LearyDoubleday Canada, July 2020In this brief, amusing and romantic novel about grief and letting go, Fay haunts her husband Alec after she dies in their Vancouver home.Alec can't see Fay. He looks straight through me. I wonder...
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How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie Celona
How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie CelonaHamish Hamilton, March 2020Audiobook (7 hours; Penguin) read by Laurel LefkowThe premise and puzzle of this story is a woman who goes missing on New Year's Day in 1986. The issues raised include parenting after divorce, alcohol addiction, mental health...
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How a Woman Becomes a Lake by Marjorie CelonaHamish Hamilton, March 2020Audiobook (7 hours; Penguin) read by Laurel LefkowThe premise and puzzle of this story is a woman who goes missing on New Year's Day in 1986. The issues raised include parenting after divorce, alcohol addiction, mental health...
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The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St John MandelHarperCollins, March 2020Audiobook (10.5 hours, Harper Audio, 2020) read by Dylan MooreA kaleidoscopic story of personal transformation, ethics and interconnectivity against the background of a Ponzi scheme.This practically hits all of my reading s...
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The Glass Hotel by Emily St John MandelHarperCollins, March 2020Audiobook (10.5 hours, Harper Audio, 2020) read by Dylan MooreA kaleidoscopic story of personal transformation, ethics and interconnectivity against the background of a Ponzi scheme.This practically hits all of my reading s...
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You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig
You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura LudwigHouse of Anansi, May 2020 Short stories set within a Jewish community in Ontario, and connected through recurring characters.Marriage and divorce, childhood and old age, death and new babies: these thoughtful stories dip in and out of intergenerat...
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You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura LudwigHouse of Anansi, May 2020 Short stories set within a Jewish community in Ontario, and connected through recurring characters.Marriage and divorce, childhood and old age, death and new babies: these thoughtful stories dip in and out of intergenerat...
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Watching You Without Me by Lynn Coady
Watching You Without Me by Lynn CoadyAnansi, October 2019Suspenseful domestic drama.Karen Petrie has lived away from Nova Scotia for 10 years, and comes home when her mother dies of cancer. Karen's older sister Kelli, who has developmental disabilities, has up until this point been cared for by t...
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Watching You Without Me by Lynn CoadyAnansi, October 2019Suspenseful domestic drama.Karen Petrie has lived away from Nova Scotia for 10 years, and comes home when her mother dies of cancer. Karen's older sister Kelli, who has developmental disabilities, has up until this point been cared for by t...
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The Diamond House by Dianne Warren
The Diamond House by Dianne WarrenHarperCollins, June 2020Audiobook (11 hours, Harper Audio) read by Marisa BlakeA family saga centred on two nontraditional White women.The narrative follows a family line for more than a century, from Ontario to Saskatchewan, where Oliver Diamond establishes a br...
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The Diamond House by Dianne WarrenHarperCollins, June 2020Audiobook (11 hours, Harper Audio) read by Marisa BlakeA family saga centred on two nontraditional White women.The narrative follows a family line for more than a century, from Ontario to Saskatchewan, where Oliver Diamond establishes a br...
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The Certainties by Aislinn Hunter
The Certainties by Aislinn HunterAudiobook (6 hours) read by Sandra Flores and Steve CumynKnopf, August 2020If you've been following my blog, you already know that I like epigraphs. One of the two that open this slim, sorrowful novel is by Federico Garcia Lorca: &nb...
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The Certainties by Aislinn HunterAudiobook (6 hours) read by Sandra Flores and Steve CumynKnopf, August 2020If you've been following my blog, you already know that I like epigraphs. One of the two that open this slim, sorrowful novel is by Federico Garcia Lorca: &nb...
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Aubrey McKee by Alex Pugsley
Aubrey McKee by Alex PugsleyBiblioasis, April 2020As you would expect from a book titled with a person's name, this novel is deeply character-based. Even the city of Halifax is a character here. Everyone, including the city, is full of surprises. The story is told in first person chapters that ca...
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Aubrey McKee by Alex PugsleyBiblioasis, April 2020As you would expect from a book titled with a person's name, this novel is deeply character-based. Even the city of Halifax is a character here. Everyone, including the city, is full of surprises. The story is told in first person chapters that ca...
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Home Sickness by Chih-Ying Lay
Home Sickness: Stories by Chih-Ying LayTranslation from Mandarin by Darryl SterkLinda Leith Publishing, March 2020Ten insightful, melancholic stories set in contemporary Taiwan.Born in Taipei, Chih-Ying Lay is now a microbiology research scientist in Montreal, as well as a singer and the author o...
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Home Sickness: Stories by Chih-Ying LayTranslation from Mandarin by Darryl SterkLinda Leith Publishing, March 2020Ten insightful, melancholic stories set in contemporary Taiwan.Born in Taipei, Chih-Ying Lay is now a microbiology research scientist in Montreal, as well as a singer and the author o...
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The Red Chesterfield by Wayne Arthurson
The Red Chesterfield by Wayne ArthursonUniversity of Calgary Press, October 2019A delightfully odd crime novella told in vignettes.A bylaw officer investigates a complaint about a yard sale, then spots an abandoned chesterfield nearby and then things go sideways because he also finds a severed hu...
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The Red Chesterfield by Wayne ArthursonUniversity of Calgary Press, October 2019A delightfully odd crime novella told in vignettes.A bylaw officer investigates a complaint about a yard sale, then spots an abandoned chesterfield nearby and then things go sideways because he also finds a severed hu...
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When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonaldSimon and Schuster, January 2020Audiobook (10 hours) read by Phoebe StroleCourage is what makes a hero out of Zelda, a slightly-built 21-year-old White woman with a cognitive disability.After their mother dies of cancer, Gert assumes care for his youn...
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When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonaldSimon and Schuster, January 2020Audiobook (10 hours) read by Phoebe StroleCourage is what makes a hero out of Zelda, a slightly-built 21-year-old White woman with a cognitive disability.After their mother dies of cancer, Gert assumes care for his youn...
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