Miriam Toews’ All My Puny Sorrows (2014)

2014-10-07T15:10:00-04:00

Excerpt from Reading Journal: Knopf Canada, 2014 Last night I finished reading All My Puny Sorrows, and when I woke up this morning, I was weeping. This doesn’t reveal how the book ended, because I read more than half of it last night, half-skimming the first half that

Miriam Toews’ All My Puny Sorrows (2014)2014-10-07T15:10:00-04:00

Shani Mootoo’s Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (2014)

2014-10-07T15:08:06-04:00

Shani Mootoo sidles up to her story. Random House Canada, 2014 A novel like Padma Viswanathan’s The Ever After of Ashwin Rao is more openly preoccupied with questions of grief and loss. One like Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts explores family relationships and the passage of time in

Shani Mootoo’s Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (2014)2014-10-07T15:08:06-04:00

David Adams Richards’ Crimes against My Brother (2014)

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David Adams Richards has set many works in the Miramichi, beginning with his classic trilogy (Nights Below Station Street, Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace, and For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down), so that the landscape of New Brunswick has become a character in its own right in his

David Adams Richards’ Crimes against My Brother (2014)2014-10-07T13:49:14-04:00

Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk (2014)

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One might say that Medicine Walk is a novel about the disconnect between a father and a son. McClelland & Stewart, 2014 “Eldon Starlight. Franklin Starlight. Four blunt syllables conjuring nothing. When he appeared the kid would watch him and whisper his name under his breath, waiting for

Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk (2014)2019-05-11T19:56:20-04:00

Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist (2014)

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It doesn’t get much more obvious than stacking these truths on the book jacket: there it is. Knopf Canada, 2014 The Confabulist Steven Galloway For even though the noun more commonly associated with ‘confabulate’ is ‘confabulation’, what is most important here is not the story itself but the

Steven Galloway’s The Confabulist (2014)2014-10-07T13:46:53-04:00
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