The final title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is Elevator in Saigon by Thuận, translated by Nguyễn An Lý! From the author of Chinatown comes a personal and political, tragic and bitingly satirical, ethereal journey through Hanoi, Saigon, Paris, Pyongyang, and Seoul. A Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Saigon for her estranged mother’s […]
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The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is Nauetakuan, a Silence for a Noise by Natasha Kanapé-Fontaine, translated by Howard Scott! Monica, a young woman studying art history in Montreal, has lost touch with her Innu roots. When an exhibition unexpectedly articulates a deep, intergenerational wound, she begins to search for a stronger […]
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The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is Disobedience by Daniel Sarah Karasik! Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love affair with Coe, an insurrectionary activist, are discovered. But […]
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The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview is These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher! Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she’s going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, and other […]
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The next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Preview is Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber! Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a revelatory hybrid collection that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight. Documenting the birth and early life of her three daughters, Adrienne […]
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We’re thrilled to be sharing the next title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: Play by Jess Taylor! Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too […]
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Today we’re sharing the third title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo! Shani Mootoo’s great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no record of where they were from in India or whether it was kidnapping, trickery, or false promises of wealth that took […]
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We’re back with the second title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Poetry Preview: you by Chantal Neveu, translated by Erín Moure! From poet Chantal Neveu, author of the award-winning collection This Radiant Life, comes a book-length poem that plunges us more deeply into the notion of the idyll and into the polyhedric structure of love. you demonstrates with exceptional […]
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Today we’re excited to share the third title in our Winter/Spring 2024 Fiction Preview: How You Were Born by Kate Cayley! This tenth-anniversary edition of Kate Cayley’s award-winning collection includes three new stories, a Foreword by Alayna Munce, and Preface by the author. A young mother intrudes into the life of an older woman, thinking […]
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