Review by Francine Cunningham Birdie by Tracey Lindberg HarperCollins Canada, 2016 Birdie, written by first-time novelist Tracey Lindberg, citizen of the As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree and hailing from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation, tells the story of...
Review by Kyle Schoenfeld The Mercy Journals Claudia Casper Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 As with any book imagining a future world, Claudia Casper’s The Mercy Journals threads its way between optimism and pessimism, utopia and dystopia. It’s impossible to...
Review by Lesley Finn Pax by Sara Pennypacker Harper Collins, 2016 In the opening pages of Sara Pennypacker’s new novel, twelve-year-old Peter plays fetch with his pet in the woods. The idyll is all artifice: this is a scene...
Review by Will Preston The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff Little, Brown and Company, 2016 Some years ago, on the southwestern tip of England, I stumbled across a little stone chapel overlooking the sea. It was a gorgeous,...
Review by Anjalika Samarasekera The Heaviness of Things that Float by Jennifer Manuel Douglas & McIntyre, 2016 The cover of Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel, The Heaviness of Things that Float, depicts two seashells attempting a yin yang configuration. The...
Review by Francine Cunningham Faerie by Eisha Marjara Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 Faerie, by Montreal filmmaker Eisha Marjara is a Young Adult (YA) novel that tackles tough issues head on and does not back down from the reality of...
Review by Sarah Higgins I Want to Tell You Something by Caroline Sniatynski rEvolver Festival, The Cultch I want to tell you that as I made my way into the Founder’s Lounge at The Cultch for Caroline Sniatynski’s one...
Review by Kyla Jamieson even this page is white by Vivek Shraya Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist Vivek Shraya’s impressive body of work includes multiple albums, films, and books. Her debut novel, She of the Mountains, was...
Review by Selina Boan Diversion by George Murray ECW Press, 2015 Sitting down to read George Murray’s seventh collection of poetry, aptly titled Diversion, I found myself entering a world of one-off lines, aphorisms and clever hashtag titles (such...