Category: Features

In search of fulfillment: Bhat explores modern womanhood 
Death by a Thousand Cuts, Shashi Bhat. Penguin Random House, 2024. 

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. 

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. 

In Praise of the Earth and Not Throwing Up One’s Hands 
Homing, Alice Irene Whittaker. Freehand, 2024. 

Dutiful Illuminations in the Dark
All Our Ordinary Stories, A Multigenerational Family Odyssey, Teresa Wong. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2024.

Pages/panels are excerpted from All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2024. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Prospero as visionary poet 
Great Silent Ballad, A.F. Moritz. House of Anansi, 2024. 

“Half-Dead Princesses and the Witches and Hags Who Cursed Them”: Exploring Women’s Roles in Pop Culture and Daily Life 
The Call is Coming From Inside the House, Allyson McOuat. ECW Press, 2024. 

Fiercely against the world’s fire 
In the Key of Decay, Em Dial. Palimpsest Press, 2024. 

Our Tomorrows Preserve a Love That Will Come 
Heliotropia, Manahil Bandukwala. Brick Books, 2024

Five hundred years later in the 24th century, 
starship captains will travel millions of light years 
in search of humanity’s specialness. 
As though there is not enough love on Earth. (25)