Posts tagged with ‘Canada’
May 23, 2014
A CHINESE-CANADIAN FAMILY, RIVEN by a father’s desire for control and his children’s search for identity. B PLUS
Grade: B PLUS
FOR TODAY I AM A BOY
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2014
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Canada, LGBTQ Interest, Novels
January 24, 2013
UNUSUAL, HIGHLY CANDID memoir from a woman whose husband of only one month was jailed for shocking crimes.
Grade: SOLID B
THROUGH THE GLASS
Gallery Books
2012
Tags: Canada, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews, True Crime
November 24, 2012
UNFLINCHINGLY COMPLEX AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL novel follows a young writer’s search for friendship, love, and art.
Grade: B PLUS
HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? A NOVEL FROM LIFE
Henry Holt
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Canada, Novels, Social and Cultural Commentary, Toronto, Visual Arts, Writing
June 16, 2012
POIGNANT, ROUGH-HEWN MEMOIR from a writer trying to make sense of his troubled parents and their lives.
Grade: SOLID B
CURES FOR HUNGER: A MEMOIR
Milkweed Editions
2012
Tags: Canada, Canadian Writers, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews
June 17, 2011
COMPLEX, INTRIGUING EXPERIMENTAL novel about family and memory traces the lines between sanity and madness.
Grade: SOLID B
SNOWBALL, DRAGONFLY, JEW
ECW Press
2011
Tags: Canada, Novels, Solid B Reviews
February 5, 2011
COMPLEX WEBS of crime and a vividly depicted Quebec setting make this multivocal mystery a winner.
Grade: B PLUS
BURY YOUR DEAD
St. Martin's Press
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Canada, Mystery, Novels