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It's 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small town of Chatham with his father and older sister. So far, so normal.

Prompted by a mysterious summons from his past, a man known only as 'The Super' begins an investigation into maternal neglect by a privileged Toronto family.

These fourteen stories by acclaimed poet Patricia Young explore the small victories and lurching disappointments, losses and betrayals of the everyday with a language and style that is tautly poeti

In a linked collection that presents the secret small tragedies of an Anglican congregation struggling to survive, All Saints delves into the life of Simon, the Reverend, and the lives of his paris

An academic's wife, struggling to keep up with her husband's quest to find a long-dead author's Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband.

Simon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body. Waste of Space. Bastard. A Threat to Women. Murderer.

Eduardo, an architect from Lisbon, has come to Montreal to be with his wife Geneviève. Geneviève researches fungi and likes to catalogue her orgasms.

Now in its 47th year, 'Best Canadian Stories' has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shap

At Dream Inc., a lifestyle-magazine publisher, people are struggling to do more than their jobs. They struggle to fall in love. They struggle to stay that way.

In the Cote-de-Negre area of Montreal, the first stop for many new immigrants, live people of more than 100 nationalities, Marcelo, the sensitive son of Chilean refugees, and Cleo, a shy boy from H

What are boys and men thinking? That's what the wry, observant, heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know.

In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortality, and the dawn of sexual awareness - all bodied f

When Brenda Bray, better known to the world as Rae Brand, author of the popular Elsinor Grey mystery series, returns home to Hamilton, she is set upon by vivid memories of the fall of 1962 when she

Rose LeClair has everything she ever wanted: a successful career as a box office starlet, a handsome, successful Hollywood husband, more fans and money than she could have hoped for, her face on th

What has to die before you force yourself to change? That's the question facing the always quirky and often-queer characters of Canary.