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Winner of the 2009 ReLit Award! He saw it. Like one dead eye filmed over. Like a tunnel that would kill you. Like a star coming to explode you. He saw it. Closer and closer. It was morning.

Bartleby the Scrivener meets Catch-22 in this charmingly sardonic tale of love, war and fertilizer. WINNER OF THE PRIX DES COLLÉGIENS Simón turned his thoughts to her daily.

All sorts of things can happen, no matter what road you take, and I never forget that. Death in particular can never be forgotten.

Kleptomaniacs, convicts, roof-walkers and homicidal hippies: here are children and adults, men and women, all struggling to define themselves. The stories in I know you are but what am I?

Winner of the The Believer Book Award (2012) Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award (2013) Myra, naive and curious, is on a family vacation to the southernmost tip of Florida – a mangy Key West fu

When a mad dentist steals people's teeth, Miss Lamp comes to town.

Winner of the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Winner of the 2012 Relit Award for Best Novel. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction.

A welfare cheque floats down the river, a cowboy spreads the Word of the Lord and crotches tick like clocks: the world of Spare Parts is unpredictable, evocative and vividly distorted.

Nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. Eugenia Ledoux, nine years old, wakes to a note from her father: ‘gone to save the world. sorry. yours, sheb wooly ledoux.

Nominated for a Governor General's Award for Translation. Yesterday, on my way back from the museum: my head is full of images of storms. A boundless sea of paintings and photographs.

Nicole Brossard's lucid, subversive and innovative work on language has influenced an entire generation of readers and writers.

The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club is not content simply to read and discuss books. Their process is a little more involved.

Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award The kid sells lemonade.

Shortlisted for a 2009 Lambda Award When Auden learns he’s HIV-positive, he decides to head for Toronto, leaving behind Sudbury and his old personality.

In the town of Lake Wachannabee, Ontario, lies the Winter Garden, home to matron Giggy Andrewes and her brood: her strung-out nephew Jem Waferly, his friend Cora, Chappy the whippet, two peacocks,