Narrative theme: Coming of age

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Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

A young woman’s coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal—set against the stark landscape of the far north

Millicent is a shy twenty-four-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse ...

All the Quiet Places

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards' Published Prose in English Prize
Shortlisted ...

Some People's Children

Imogene Tubbs has never met her father and, raised by her grandmother, she only sees her mother sporadically. But as she grows older, she learns that many people in her small, rural town believe her father ...

Even Weirder Than Before

By (author) Susie Taylor
Categories: Family life fiction

The early 1990s: there’s no internet, VHS is still a thing, and Daisy Radcliffe’s family is disintegrating. As the stability of her old life disappears, she is set adrift into the odd territory between ...

Chocolate Cherry Chai

Young, free-spirited Maya Mubeen leaves behind the pressures of family, marriage, and tradition for a life of experience and adventure, proving to herself and her mother that she is anything but a typical ...

Ashoona, Daughter of the Winds

By (author) Yvonne Harris
Categories: Historical fiction

Based on the inspiring, true story of a precocious young Inuit girl who is abandoned and left to fend for herself in the unforgiving Arctic North. This coming-of-age tale celebrates the indomitable will ...

Annabel

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, ...

De Niro's Game ed 1 /tp

By (author) Rawi Hage
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. In Rawi Hage’s unforgettable novel, winner of the 2008 IMPAC Prize, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two ...

The Milk Chicken Bomb

Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Shortlisted for the Amazon. ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award

The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it’s winter, ...