A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Abel has crafted a cross-genre work that addresses questions of identity and the ways we are affected by past hurt.
In Atwoodian terms, O’Neill’s story represents a conflation of doomed animals and survival.
Two stories about pleasure and pain interrogate the nature of trust and what we risk when we relinquish control.
Diane Schoemperlen’s plaintive tale is about what happens when youthful promise gives way to the creeping disillusion of adulthood.
Eva Crocker’s dual father-and-son narration draws parallels between two characters trapped in their own lives.
Sofi Papamarko’s superhero origin story takes a little-known historical tragedy and imagines a different outcome.
Two time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Vassanji’s story is about missed opportunities and unfulfilled dreams.
Mutonji’s story is an empathetic look at burgeoning female sexuality and the roles women are expected to perform in our capitalist system.
The language of the story is tightly calibrated and walks a tightrope between lyricism and incipient violence.
A story about a granddaughter on the day she euthanizes her grandmother is also a veiled critique of the residential school system.