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Meg Todd: Exit Strategies
The 14 stories in Exit Strategies explore the subtleties of memory and storytelling, masterfully creating the universal picture from the quotidian details.
Katherena Vermette: The Strangers
From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores how connected we are, even when we’re no longer together—even when we’re forced apart.
John Vigna: No Man’s Land
A sprawling saga set in the Canadian wilderness of the late 19th century, about a teenaged girl named Davey, a charismatic fraudster, and the unbearable weight of fate.
Bronwen Tate: The Silk the Moths Ignore
The Silk the Moths Ignore animates the liminal, sometimes gothic, spaces of miscarriage, pregnancy, and early parenthood with exquisite defamiliarizing detail.
Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt: Peacekeeper’s Daughter
Peacekeeper’s Daughter is the astonishing story of a French-Canadian military family stationed in Israel and Lebanon in 1982-1983, told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl
Alix Ohlin: We Want What We Want
A collection of glittering, surprising, darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives.
Billy-Ray Belcourt: A History of My Brief Body
A slim but electrifying debut memoir about the preciousness and precariousness of queer Indigenous life.
Tania De Rozario: And the Walls Come Crumbling Down
Part queer memoir and part poetic rumination, And The Walls Come Crumbling Down lays bare the love, pain, and precarity experienced by those who must forge their own home.
Keith Maillard: The Bridge
One writer’s deeply compelling story of growing up nonbinary in the 1940s an 1950s.
Michelle Good: Five Little Indians
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.