These two powerful plays, in Arabic and English, examine the effects of war and the refugee experience. Suitcase considers the lives of refugees and the spaces they inhabit. The play urges the audience ...
The stories in Permanent Tourists feature displaced characters loosely connected through a support group, all of them dealing with loss precipitated by an elusive father, husband or lover, by a wife’s ...
Morgan Watson has a problem. When word leaked that his cat, Tiberius, miraculously cured itself of diabetes and may hold the key to a cure, he is attacked in his home and almost killed in a bloody fight. ...
The acclaimed intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women—twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother—set across three continents: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. | 2021 Canada ...
Have you ever looked back and wondered, What if…?
Meet Sylvie—funny, sly, sensual, and flawed. Like all of us, Sylvie must make decisions that have reverberations for years to come. Unlike the rest ...
On the coast of rural Newfoundland, Hannah Fitzgerald’s mother has lived her life in near total isolation. When Hannah returns to the lonely saltbox house to prepare her mother for the transition into ...
From stories on the streets of Danang, Vietnam, where a boy falls in with a young American missionary, to the Canadian prairies, where an aging rancher finds himself smitten and a teenage boy’s infatuation ...
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 ...
In a fictionalized French-Canadian Detroit, Gloria moves into her late daughter’s house. Hoping to understand what led to her death and to find her missing granddaughters, she starts exploring her neighbourhood. ...
She has been called Medusa for so long she forgot her real name. She walks with her head down, sparing people the sight of her deformities—a pair of eyes so horrendous they repulse everyone. She has ...