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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.
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.