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.
Annabel Lyon: Consent
A smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided together when tragedy changes them forever.
Nancy Lee: What Hurts Going Down
A searing exploration of girlhood in the pre- and post- #MeToo eras from the acclaimed novelist.
Mallory Tater: The Birth Yard
A debut novel for readers of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Girls, The Birth Yard is a gripping story of a young woman’s rebellion against the rules that control her body.
Keith Maillard: Fatherless
This story begins with a phone call out of the blue: a lawyer tells a writer that his ninety-six-year-old father, with whom he has had no contact since the age of three and whom he has twice tried to find without success, has just died, leaving him nothing. Keith Maillard begins to research his father’s life.
Sarah Leavitt: Agnes, Murderess
A graphic novel inspired by the bloody legend of Agnes MacVee, roadhouse owner, madam and serial killer, who is said to have murdered more than 50 people in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in the mid- to late nineteenth century.
Alison Acheson: Dance Me to the End
A profoundly honest and intensely personal story of a woman who cares for her husband after the devastating terminal diagnosis of ALS.