In The Kissing Fence, two generations grapple with identity, oppression, and redemption rooted in the chilling history of the 1950s and 60s conflict between the Canadian government and the Doukhobors ...

A horrific betrayal sets the destiny of the Alevizopoulos family, farmers who dare to choose a side, first in the Great War of 1914-1918, then in the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-1922. Theodore, the patriarch, ...

Coconut Dreams takes a fresh look at the world of the new immigrant and the South Asian experience. Starting with a ghost story set in Goa, India, in the 1950s, the linked stories explore the lives of ...

What is the literary and cultural benefit of a diaspora anthology? It presents work from a community, a family of writers. It represents a cultural contribution to Canadian literature. It makes it known ...

“You will lose yourself in this collection of stories by some of Canada’s most imaginative authors. Each tale takes you to a different place (physical or psychological) that is both familiar and strange. ...

A jewel of a novella, a luminous and moving glimpse into the grand themes of exile and homecoming across continents.

Patrin is the old word for the clues Romany left for their travelling fellows—a handful ...

“Gianna Patriarca’s short stories are threads of a larger texture, probing, with subtlety and irony, the nuances and the intricacies of the mind of women who bear in their very names their family ...

Since its publication in 1994, Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms has been recognized as a true classic of Canadian literature. One of the initial entries in NeWest Press' long-running Nunatak First Fiction ...

Set in Bombay in the mid-1990s, Family Matters tells a story of familial love and obligation, of personal and political corruption, of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion. Nariman ...