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Emi Sasagawa: Atomweight
When nineteen-year-old Aki throws her first punch, the respectable ‘good girl’ discovers she’s a fighter. But who is she trying to beat? This is a novel about the need to reconcile competing cultures, traditions and values that also explores issues of sexual identity and violence.
Dominique Bernier-Cormier: Entre Rive and Shore
According to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison the night before the Acadian Deportation by disguising himself in a dress.
Cathalynn Labonte-Smith: Rescue Me
Rescue Me takes you behind the scenes of some of North America’s riskiest search and rescue operations.
Meredith Hambrock: Other People’s Secrets
Baby’s down—and could be out for good—when she faces off with forces bent on turning her lakeside paradise into a living hell, for fans of Alissa Nutting and Amy Engel.
Billy-Ray Belcourt: A Minor Chorus
A Minor Chorus is a novel that tracks a queer Indigenous doctoral student’s attempt to write a novel instead of a dissertation.
Susan Musgrave: Exculpatory Lilies
Throughout this collection, Musgrave’s alertness to even the most desolate places makes her personal sorrows astonishingly potent; and her scrutiny of language, and emotions, makes shot silk out of sackcloth and ashes.
Sheryda Warrener: Test Piece
This book considers ways of seeing, thinking through art, the domestic, and the making and unmaking of a self. It traces one woman’s movement from formality and orderliness to a sense of mutability.
Tanya Kyi: Better Connected
From environmental activism and gun control to immigration policy and education, girls are leading the way.
Tanya Kyi: Our Green City
This picture book is a charming, child-centred tour of a sustainable city.
Bronwen Tate: Midwinter Constellation
A radical experiment in collective writing, the book embroiders, echoes, and blurs the voices of poets across the U.S. and beyond.