Fiction: narrative themes

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The Occidental Hotel

A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America, reflecting on the ruins of the South and on the life of a German performance ...

Aubrey McKee

An arcana of oddball angels, Alex Pugsley’s long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, émigré heart surgeons and small-time thugs, renegade private school girls ...

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 ...

Here the Dark

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 ...

All That Belongs

By (author) Dora Dueck
Categories: Fiction: general and literary

Catherine, an archivist, has spent decades committed to conserving the pasts of others, only to find her own resurfacing on the eve of her retirement. Carefully, she mines the failing memories of her ...

Claremont

How to survive the unthinkable?
This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his parent's murder-suicide. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in ...

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 ...

Days by Moonlight

Botanist Alfred Homer, recently bereaved but ever hopeful, embarks on a road trip with Professor Morgan Bruno. They encounter towns with familiar names but otherworldly customs: where Black residents ...

A Circle on the Surface

It’s 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Enman brings Una to his childhood home in rural Barrein, Nova Scotia, where Una feels increasingly trapped, and longs for the city life she once had. ...

Watermark

Returning to her childhood home on Mikinaak Island after a 20 year absence, Mina McInnis unravels the incidents that caused her family’s disintegration. She is determined to uncover the truth about ...