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Rubble Children

In seven-and-a-half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter’s Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, ...

Peacocks of Instagram

Par (auteur) Deepa Rajagopalan
Catégories: Nouvelles

Engrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.

An underappreciated coffee shop server haunted by ...

Tales for Late Night Bonfires

Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction

These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really ...

This Is How You Start to Disappear

Par (auteur) Astrid Blodgett
Catégories: Nouvelles
Séries: Robert Kroetsch Series

These twelve new short stories from Astrid Blodgett explore the consequences of grief and denial and single moments that change perceptions, lives, and attachments forever. Crisp prose and unexpected ...

Places Like These

Par (auteur) Lauren Carter
Catégories: Littérature générale

A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault ...

Chrysalis

Par (auteur) Anuja Varghese
Catégories: Nouvelles

Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award
Winner, 2023 Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2+ Emerging Writers
Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Longlisted for the ...

Morse Code for Romantics

Par (auteur) Anne Baldo
Catégories: Littérature générale

In Anne Baldo's Morse Code for Romantics, patterns of life emerge—and break—in relationships both requited and otherwise. A restaurateur orchestrates a devious punishment for his wife's lover. A desperate ...

We Have Never Lived On Earth

Par (auteur) Kasia Van Schaik
Catégories: Nouvelles
Séries: Robert Kroetsch Series

Kasia Van Schaik’s debut story collection follows the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in a small town in British Columbia after moving from South Africa. Mother ...

Her First Palestinian

Par (auteur) Saeed Teebi
Catégories: Nouvelles

Finalist for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional ...

The Razor's Edge

Par (auteur) Karl Jirgens
Catégories: Littérature générale

`Unwillingly, I've become part of the story. Questions lie when reconstructing incomplete facts, half-truths, enigmas. What remains is incompletion, interruption. Only the dead know what happened.'

In ...