Contemporary Women

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The Wild Heavens

The Wild Heavens is a graceful and compelling debut novel that pays tribute to the magic and unfathomable mystery of the natural world. Sandy Langley’s life has been haunted by a tragic disappearance—until ...

The Swan Suit

By (author) Katherine Fawcett
Categories: Short stories

Blending banalities of everyday routines and dilemmas with elements of magic, the macabre and the downright inventive, the stories in The Swan Suit are anything but predictable. In this collection, reimagined ...

The Baudelaire Fractal

One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed ...

Bone Black

Bone Black is a powerful and incisive narrative that meditates on justice and revenge. After Wren StrongEagle’s twin sister Raven mysteriously disappears one evening, Wren is devastated—and angry. ...

The Envy of Paradise

In 1858, the British took over the city of Lucknow, paving the way for Queen Victoria’s reign over India. But what happened to Begam Hazrat Mahal, the woman of African-Indian descent who had valiantly ...

Set-Point

By (author) Fawn Parker
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Set-Point is humorously dry, insightful, and an understated portrait of a complex personal landscape.

Lucy is a 20-something old aspiring screenwriter who takes up digital sex-work to pay the bills. Circulating ...

No Good Asking

By (author) Fran Kimmel
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another.

Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying ...

Refuge

To whom do we offer refuge — and why?

After a life that rubbed up against the century’s great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, ...

The Showrunner

The hiring of a new assistant triggers a power struggle between aging TV show creator Ann Dalloni and her protégée turned producing partner Stacey McCreedy in The Showrunner, a suspenseful, darkly comic ...

The Small Things that End the World

From the Giller-longlisted author of The Factory Voice comes a new novel. Beginning in 1954, as Sadie Wilder gets her big break babysitting for the posh Bannister family in Toronto on the eve of Hurricane ...