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The Whispers
by Ashley Audrain
When their picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her and then he falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night, three women grapple with what led to that terrible night as his life hangs in the balance.
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Watch Out For Her
by Samantha M. Bailey
After witnessing a shocking event, Sarah, starting over in a different city with her husband and son, feels secure in their friendly, tight-knit community until she finds hidden cameras in her new home, causing her to wonder if the past has caught up with her.
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A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
by Ma-Nee Chacaby
From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community, Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social and economic legacies of colonialism. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.
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What I Know About You
by Éric Chacour
"In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the family's strong women, he starts to do just that - until a patient's son, Ali, enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men's unsayable relationship sparks a series of events as dramatic as the Six-Day War and assassination of President Anwar Sadat playing out in the background. The turn of the millennium finds Tarek living as a doctor in Montreal. Someone is writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will Tarek figure it out in time? From Cairo's grand boulevards and hidden alleys to Montreal's grim winter, from the reign of Nasser to the early 2000s, 'What I Know About You' tells the heartbreaking story of a family torn apart by an epic love."
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The Pull of the Stars
by Emma Donoghue
Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love. In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work
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When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance
by Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel
There have been many things written about Canada's violent siege of Kanehsatà ke and Kahnawà ke in the summer of 1990, but "When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance" is the first book from the perspective of Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, who was the Kanien'kehá ka (Mohawk) spokesperson during the siege. "When the Pine Needles Fall", written in a conversational style by Gabriel with historian Sean Carleton, offers an intimate look at Gabriel's life leading up to the 1990 siege, her experiences as spokesperson for her community, and her work since then as an Indigenous land defender, human rights activist, and feminist leader.
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James: A Novel
by Emma Hooper
Embarking on a more than 3,000-kilometer walking journey from rural Canada to the East coast so that she can see the ocean for the first time in her life, an octogenarian woman has experiences that blur her perspectives between illusion, memory and reality.
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The Other Valley
by Scott Alexander Howard
Vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil, 16-year-old Odile, who lives in an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, discovers her friend Edme is about to die, and sworn to secrecy to preserve the timeline, instead finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, imperiling her entire future.
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Jennie's Boy: A Misfit Childhood on an Island of Eccentrics
by Wayne Johnston
Recalling a boyhood full of pain, laughter, tenderness and humor, the beloved bestselling novelist shares his experiences during a time when he was known as “Jennie's Boy,” the sickly son of a tiny, ferocious woman and the grandson of a witty, eccentric grandmother.
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Becoming a Matriarch
by Helen Knott
Woven into the pages are themes of mourning, sobriety through loss, and generational dreaming. "Becoming a Matriarch" is charted with poetic insights, sass, humour, and heart, taking the reader over the rivers and mountains of Dane Zaa territory in Northeastern British Columbia, along the cobbled streets of Antigua, Guatemala, and straight to the heart of what matriarchy truly means. This is a journey through pain, on the way to becoming
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Dandelion
by Jamie Chai Yun Liew
When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. Dandelion is a beautifully written and affecting novel about motherhood, family secrets, migration, isolation, and mental illness. With clarity and care, it delves into the many ways we define home, identity, and above all, belonging.
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However Far Away
by Rajinderpal S. Pal
A sweeping family saga about love, loss, and acceptance - set against the backdrop of a Sikh wedding. On the morning of his nephew’s wedding, Devinder Gill is certain the delicate balance of his life will not be upset. Dev is married to Kuldip, and together they have two young children in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood. But Dev also has a secret: an affair with his first love, an Irish Canadian woman named Emily Rice, who recently returned to Canada after nine years abroad. Today, both women will attend the wedding. As the day progresses through the traditional Sikh marriage rituals, the circumstances that led to this precarious situation are revealed through the alternating perspectives of Devinder, Emily, and Kuldip.
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Clyde Fans: A Picture Novel in Five Parts
by Seth
"Clyde Fans peels back the optimism of mid-twentieth century capitalism, showing the rituals, hopes, and delusions of a vanished middle-class - arrulous self-made men in wool suits extolling the virtues of their wares to taciturn shopkeepers. Much like the myth of an ever-growing economy, the Clyde Fans family business is a fraud. The patriarch has abandoned it to mismatched sons, one who strives to keep the company afloat and the other who retreats into his memories...Seth's intimate storytelling and gorgeous art allow cityscapes and detailed period objects to tell their own stories as the brothers struggle to find themselves suffocating in an airless home."
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Girl Runner: A Novel
by Carrie Snyder
Frail centenarian Aganetha Smart recounts to two mysterious filmmakers her remarkable 1928 gold medal win for Canada, the first Olympic Games that permitted women to compete in track events.
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All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey
by Teresa Wong
A graphic memoir about the obstacles one daughter faces as she attempts to connect with her immigrant parents. Beginning with her mother's stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journey through time and place to locate the beginnings of the disconnection she feels from her parents. Through a series of stories--some epic, like her mother and father's daring escapes from communes during China's Cultural Revolution, and some banal, like her quitting Chinese school to watch Saturday morning cartoons--Wong carefully examines the cultural, historical, language, and personality barriers to intimacy in her family, seeking answers to the questions "Where did I come from?" and "Where are we going?
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