Trigger warning for rape. It’s the end of the world for most people in Stephanie […]
VenCo, by Cherie Dimaline
Lucky St. James is just trying to keep herself and her grandmother (who has dementia) […]
The Easy Life in Kamusari, by Shion Miura
What do you do with an adult son who has no ambitions and no motivation? […]
The Two Doctors Górski, by Isaac Fellman
If you could shed your worst traits, would you? If you were an anxious person, […]
The Library of the Dead, by T.L. Huchu
Ropa has a tough life, tougher than most in a post-apocalyptic, literally haunted Edinburgh. She […]
The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean
Devon, the protagonist of Sunyi Dean’s unsettling novel, The Book Eaters, is caught between a […]
Nuclear Family, by Joseph Han
It’s easy to mistake stability for coasting and it’s pretty clear from the beginning of […]
How to Be Eaten, by Maria Adelmann
Trigger warnings for references to trauma and child abuse. I have a fascination with books […]
Dead Collections, by Isaac Fellman
Isaac Fellman’s Dead Collections held a lot of promise for me when I first read […]
The Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd
Throughout The Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd, characters frequently ask each other, “What is the purpose […]