The protagonist in this novel, Josephine, has overwhelming feelings for a younger suitor who doesn't reciprocate in ways she desires. When the relationship withers and she meets someone new, things take a haunting and erotic turn. (Rare Machines) Possessed uses dark humour to reflect on sexual obsession, mental health and the supernatural. His 2019 novel, The Student, was a finalist for both the Toronto Book Award and the Governor General's Literary Award. In 2014, Fagan received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People for his body of work. He is also the author of the novel A Bird's Eye, a finalist for the Rogers Trust Fiction Prize and was an Amazon.ca Best Book of the Year, and the short story collection My Life Among the Apes. His children's books include the popular Kaspar Snit novels, the two-volume Master Melville's Medicine Show and the picture book Mr. Why Cary Fagan has a love-hate relationship with wordsĬary Fagan is an Ontario author of books for adults and children.The novel explores the nature of relationships, faunal and human, and reminds us of the challenges of finding one's place in society. Life takes a strange turn when the government-sponsored "Wild Home Project" is introduced and wild animals cohabit with the town residents. In The Animals is a fable-like narrative featuring the protagonist Dorn, who creates miniature scale models displayed in the local shops. The mild mannered Dorn deals with an untrustworthy younger sibling and a distant father - all while trying to show his deeper feelings of love to Ravenna, the ungainly schoolteacher. He was on the shortlist for the 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize and his manuscript Woodland Creetures was awarded the 2014 Canada Council for the Arts Creation Grant for Aboriginal Peoples, Writers and Storytellers. Joseph Kakwinokanasum is a member of James Smith Cree Nation. Kakwinokanasum's work has been published in the 2022 anthology Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing by Anvil Press, the Humber Literary Journal, and Emerge, The Writer's Studio anthology. The siblings get involved in an adventure involving a trio of elders and the stash of cash in the purple Crown Royal bag hidden in his mattress. For Hunter Frank, the summer begins with his mother returning home only to collect the last two months' welfare cheques, leaving her three mixed-race children to fend for themselves. My Indian Summer is a novel about survival, reconciliation and identity set during the summer of '79. My Indian Summer is a book by Joseph Kakwinokanasum. His work included 11 novels, several short story collections, two collections of poetry and multiple memoirs including 'Membering, published a year before his death. Set on the post-colonial West Indian island of Bimshire in 1952, the novel follows the murder confession of Mary Mathilda, who claims to have killed the plantation owner for whom she has worked for more than 30 years - and whose mistress she has been for most of that time, including becoming the mother of his only son.Ģ0th anniversary edition of Austin Clarke's Giller Prize-winning The Polished Hoe coming in fall 2022Īustin Clark, who died in 2016, was one of Canada's foremost authors. (Dundurn Press, Steve Carty)įirst published in 2002, The Polished Hoe won the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Trillium Book Award. The new 20th anniversary edition features a foreword by writer and professor Rinaldo Walcott, as well as a new cover commissioned from Toronto visual artist Shawn Skeir. Junie by Chelene Knightĭundurn Press is releasing a special 20th-anniversary edition of late writer Austin Clarke's award-winning novel The Polished Hoe in September 2022. Robertson was the winner of the 2021 Freedom to Read Award. Based in Winnipeg, he has published 28 books across a variety of genres, including picture books On the Trapline and When We Were Alone, the graphic novel Breakdown, and his memoir Black Water, which won two 2021 Manitoba Book Awards. Robertson is an author and graphic novelist of Swampy Cree heritage. Robertson's new novel The Theory of Crows is a dramatic tale of hurt & healing - read an excerpt nowĭavid A. When things go wrong during the journey, the father and daughter must rely on each other and the challenges they face eventually heal them in ways they never thought possible.ĭavid A. Following a tragic event, Matthew and Holly head out onto the land in search of a long-lost cabin on the family trapline, miles from the Cree community they once called home. The Theory of Crows is about a disconnected and distant relationship between a man named Matthew and his teenage daughter Holly. Robertson (Harper Perennial, Amber Green) The Theory of Crows is a novel by David A.
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