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Fiction A to Z October 2021
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The actual star : a novel
by Monica Byrne
Through the epic saga of three reincarnated souls, this book takes readers on a journey over thousands of years and six continents where it demonstrates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, love and hate.
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Binge : 60 Stories to Make Your Head Feel Different
by Douglas Coupland
Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way we write about ourselves and our experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people.
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The Björkan Sagas
by Harold R. Johnson
While sorting through the possessions of his recently deceased neighbour, Harold Johnson discovers an old, handwritten manuscript containing epic stories composed in an obscure Swedish dialect. Together, they form The Björkan Sagas.
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Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
by Jayne Allen
Thirty-something Tabitha has reached a stage in life where she must choose between her ambitions and her desire for children; guided by her two closest friends, she confronts challenging components in her life -- and within herself.
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Fight Night
by Miriam Toews
Fight Night unspools the pain, love, laughter, and above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. From the best-selling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows.
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Manikanetish
by Naomi Fontaine
After fifteen years of exile, Yammie, a young Innu woman, returns to her home in the Uashat nation on Quebec's North Shore. She has come back to teach language and drama at the community's school, but finds a community stalked by despair. Yammie will do anything to rescue her students. When she accepts a position directing the end-of-year play, she sees an opportunity for the youth to take charge of themselves.
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My Monticello
by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
"An irresistibly accessible yet startlingly bold book of short stories and a novella, inspired by Black lives in America and featuring the gripping eponymous work "My Monticello.""
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Out of Mind
by David Bergen
Lucille has become untethered, caught between duty and desire, between the demands of family and her own longing. Her ex-husband Morris betrays her by publishing a memoir about the aftermath of their son Martin's death in Afghanistan. She travels to Thailand to attempt to extricate her youngest daughter from the clutches of an apparent cult leader. And she is invited to the south of France to attend the marriage of a man whom she rejected a year earlier. Negotiating with herself about her altered role in the lives of her family and friends, Lucille circles the globe -- and herself.
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What storm, what thunder
by Myriam J. A. Chancy
Set in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, this novel is a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and—at the same time—an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.
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White Resin
by Audree Wilhelmy
In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl, Däa, is born to "twenty-four mothers," the sisters of a convent at the edge of the Quebec taiga. Nearby, at the Kohle Mine Co., a woman dies giving birth to Laure, an albino child, in the workers' canteen. What follows is a dream-like recounting of their love affair and the family they bear, a captivating magic-realist tale of origins and opposites, that would be fantastical if it did not ring so true to the boreal north.
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