Over the course of Heidi Sopinka’s The Dictionary of Animal Languages, several characters ask Ivory Frame […]
The Forgotten Ones, by Steena Holmes
I don’t know that I’ve ever read a book about digging up family skeletons in […]
The Very Marrow of Our Bones, by Christine Higdon
After Lulu’s mother goes missing at the start of The Very Marrow of Our Bones, by […]
Dogs at the Perimeter, by Madeleine Thien
Janie is haunted. Her memories of family members she lost during the reign of the […]
The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O’Neill
Several critics have written blurbs comparing The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O’Neill, to Erin Morgenstern’s The […]
Mãn, by Kim Thúy
There are some writers who make me think of the way painters work more than anything […]
The Unquiet Dead, by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty are two Toronto police officers who have the unenviable job […]
Hag-Seed, by Margaret Atwood
One of the joys of reading the Hogarth Shakespeare series is seeing how different authors […]
The Conjoined, by Jen Sookfong Lee
Coming to terms with a parent’s death is difficult enough, but Jen Sookfong Lee threw […]
The Wolf Road, by Beth Lewis
Elka has always done better in the woods, on her own, than in the middle […]