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Connecting is not easy, but proximity is unbearable. The characters in these brilliant and intense stories are longing for escape, but they inevitably find themselves homesick.

The first book in English by acclaimed Chinese-Canadian writer Xue Yiwei, Shenzheners is inspired by the young city of Shenzhen, a market town north of Hong Kong that became a Special Economic Zone

Sons and Fathers is a novel about men.

The Western Light, the prequel to the international bestselling The Wives of Bath, is Susan Swan's long-awaited return to the life of the beloved narrator Mary "Mouse" Bradford.

Hoping to keep his parents together by fulfilling an old dream of his father's, seventeen-year-old Del starts a band in which all the members have Asperger's syndrome.

Mischa "Ish" Love knows she'll be one of the first settlers on Mars.

Welcome to Montreal in the months before the 1995 referendum.

Susan Compo captures the lives of aspiring musicians, scenesters, and obsessive fans—lives in which reality is a constant threat to cherished illusions, and death, while never far away, is not alwa

Fifteen-year-old Gemma's life on a small New Brunswick island with her father, Jonah, is not an exciting one.

When Mira Acharya's father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become that much more daunting.

Retired schoolteacher Flossy O’Reilly has spent almost all of her eight decades in the seaside community of Great Village, Nova Scotia.

Ivy’s seemingly perfect, master-of-social-causes boyfriend breaks it off in the school hallway before their final exam. So much for love.

Newcomer Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into a club whose members have no intention of letting her join.

A story of sorrow and renewal which revolves around the caleche drivers of Old Montreal.

Sandra Perron, Canada's first female infantry officer, describes her experiences serving in the Canadian Forces, including the harassment she suffered during training and her deployments to Bo