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A book I have become obsessed with is Denison Avenue, a short novel by Christina Wong, illustrated by Daniel Innes. The format itself is groundbreaking, as one side of the book is the novel in text, and the other side of the book is inked artwork retelling the novel’s story.
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One of my favorite reads of the year thus far has been Kala by Colin Walsh. This is a mystery/thriller set in Ireland. This book is full of vivid descriptions that transport the reader to the heart of the novel.
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The Islands We Carry
Island, Douglas Walbourne-Gough. icehouse poetry, 2024.
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In search of fulfillment: Bhat explores modern womanhood
Death by a Thousand Cuts, Shashi Bhat. Penguin Random House, 2024.
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Memory, Music, Love, and the Wind: Jane Urquhart’s Captivating Novel of a Woman’s Life on the Prairies
In Winter I Get Up at Night, Jane Urquhart. McClelland & Stewart, 2024.
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Lost, Carried, and Remembered
I Left You Behind, Nazneen Sheikh. Mawenzi House Publishers, 2024.
Nazneen Sheikh’s I Left You Behind is a short story collection about what we find and what we leave behind in our migrations. Through seventeen stories written in captivating prose, Sheikh paints the lives of characters who find themselves returning to defining events in their lives and identities.
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In Praise of the Earth and Not Throwing Up One’s Hands
Homing, Alice Irene Whittaker. Freehand, 2024.
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Beethoven Blues: Keeping My Bum in Its Seat
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After hearing me do a reading as a newly-minted "emerging writer" (whatever the hell that means), a famous poet approached me and said that I reminded them of June Jordan, Diane Seuss, and Wanda Coleman. Check! Check! Wanda, who?
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On a recent four-hour train ride across France, I pulled Leila Chatti’s debut poetry collection, Deluge (Coppe
