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A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien.

A bevy of colorful characters cross paths with each other in this novel about Montreal's garment district and its Orthodox Jewish community.

Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast.

Ranald Macdonald’s roots are in the forest of Ontario’s easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home.

Taut, compelling, and remarkably assured, Hail Mary Corner thrusts readers into unfamiliar territory past an emotional frontier we all must cross: the uncertain ground between adolescence and adul

It’s no secret that Sylvia is a little crazy. People have thought so ever since she first came to town when she was a teenager.

Eleven-year-old Josie Grun escapes from Communist East Germany with her mother and father one dark night in 1989 just months before the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down.

Father Pat Cheyne, an unkempt, middle-aged priest on a lone canoe ride reflects on how these solitary meditations in his beloved canoe have marked his life.

These twelve linked stories confirm what we’ve suspsected all along: eventually we all outsmart our parents.

David, an Anglican parish priest, has no way of knowing that his place in the world is about to be shaken irrevocably.

Elsa is a typical fifteen-year-old growing up in the early 1960s.

Two is fraught. While dealing with the impossible expectations of her parents, she is trying to understand why her brother, a bright and talented teenager, has taken his own life.

Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables.

Skin introduces us to a group of Canadian teenagers who are coming of age in the late 1980s.

The Yichud Room is the place where the bride and groom go to be alone immediately following the wedding ceremony.