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Esa Withrod is a young woman struggling over recent events in her personal life—a failed first relationship and resulting pregnancy—as well as the legacy of her desolate upbringing.

Romani Women in Canada: Spectrum of the Blue Water is grounded upon Romani women’s lived experience as writers, essayists, visual artists, and activists.

After Drowning is set in a small fishing town on the shores of Lake Erie and concerns the volatile fortunes of a fishing family.

Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America.

Emotionally battered and bruised, 29-year-old Australian immigrant Benny is looking for escape, not redemption.

Holy Rule takes place during three weeks in October, 1958, focusing on the lives of a group of nuns who teach at St. Monica’s Girls’ School.

Rebel Women begins by moving in and out of women’s kitchens, parlours, meetings, and wagon-rides on the eve and throughout Toronto’s 1837 Rebellion.

Corridor Talk contains contributions from feminist scholars from across Canada from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds.

A gritty tragi-comic fairy tale of sexual obsession and longing, based in equal parts on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, Once Upon A Time In West Toront

Based on a true story, Tell Anna She’s Safe is the tale of two women, one missing, the other searching for her.

At the onset of puberty girls’ right legs are sawed off in Ramprend’s Beautification Ritual. In this dystopian novel, female stumps are desirable to men.

Into the Mystic is a contemporary spiritual autobiography written from a mystical perspective that introduces the reader to the hidden life of twentieth-century Canadian mystic, Olga Park.

With grace and courage Ann Elizabeth Carson looks to the past from the perspective of a contemporary feminist.

Stony Point tells the story of a woman who succeeds in doing things at a time when custom restricts her from doing anything.

Shortly after the first referendum on Quebec separation, four people in their forties encounter each other in Ile d’Or, the town where all of them grew up.