Once a year, David travels to visit Stella; they have been divorced for 8 years (they were married for 21 years), and this year he brings Catherine, the woman he is with. But Catherine is not his "new girl"; that is Dina -- without the 'h' -- whose picture he
Take a clue from the opening sentence. It seems very straightforward, ordinary. But the part with the parkette being like a teardrop turned sideways? Heather Birrell will take what you know and slant it. (And, also, there is some sadness.) "BriannaSusannaAlana" is named for the three sisters who tell the
On the surface, Nalo Hopkinson's YA novel is about the chaos which ensues after a volcano emerges dramatically in Lake Ontario. Simon & Schuster, 2012 It also, however, takes on the chaotic elements of the reader's society: the sexism, ableism, homophobia and racism that characterizes the everyday world
With lead type and a hand press: that's how Gaspereau Press originally produced this collection of poems, in the old-fashioned way. Even the trade edition is the sort of book which makes you want to run your fingers across the page, not simply hold it by the edges, and, yet, simultaneously,
Sixteen-year-old "Mouse" Bradford feels like a monster, with her companion, Alice, her humpback. How fitting, then, that there are bars on the windows of Bath Ladies' College, the boarding school to which she is sent in late 1963. "My God! It looks like a prison," her father says, driving up
