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Canadiana Fiction May 2019
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The matchmaker's list
by Sonya Lalli
Raina Anand navigates a series of disastrous blind dates in her efforts to balance her tight-knit Indian-immigrant community's traditional expectations with her own ideas of what modern romance is.
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A deadly divide
by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Investigating a mass shooting at a mosque in Quebec, detective Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty find themselves in a terror-stricken community whose panic is being fueled by racism, a right-wing radio host and a shadowy trickster.
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The homecoming : a novel
by Andrew Pyper
After learning from their father's will that to claim their inheritance they must stay at the family estate for thirty days with their troubled mother and sister, two brothers are drawn into a world of dark revelations and long-kept secrets.
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Focus on Authors from Canada's Territories
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Bow grip
by Ivan E. Coyote
The long-awaited first novel by Ivan E. Coyote. Unlike her short stories, which are almost entirely first-person and told from the author's perspective as a self-admitted boyish girl' (though she is not transgender), Bow Grip is a straight, 40-something male who is at a crossroads in his life. The title references Joey's burgeoning interest in the cello ('gripping' the 'bow') as well as Bow River in Calgary, where most of the novel takes place.'
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Porcupines and China Dolls
by Robert Arthur Alexie
Enough alcohol silences the demons for a night; a gun and a single bullet silences demons forever. When a friend commits suicide and a former priest appears on television, the northern Aboriginal community is shattered. James and Jake confront their childhood abuse in a residential school, and break the silence to begin a journey of healing and rediscovery. Explicit descriptions of sex, explicit strong language and some descriptions of violence.
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Read, Listen, Tell : Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island
by Sophie Mccall
The goal of Read, Listen, Tell is not only to share with readers an incredibly diverse collection of Indigenous stories, but also to transform methods of reading by bringing into the forefront practices in interpreting texts that are grounded in Indigenous knowledge and scholarship. Each of the chapters offers particular strategies for reading the stories in multiple ways, encouraging readers to expand the scope of the "short story" by including a broad range of story forms. The chapters consist of five to seven stories, accompanied by a critical essay that helps contextualize some of the questions and issues the stories raise.
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Three feathers
by Richard Van Camp
In order to atone for vandalism, three young men are sent to live nine months on the land where they learn to take responsibility for their actions and gain humility in the process.
Beautifully written, Three Feathers explores the power and grace of restorative justice in one Northern community and the cultural legacy that can empower future generations.
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