In the west coast Vancouver Island native village of Kitsum, where everyone knows everyone's business, sixteen-year-old Brenda Joe’s pregnancy is only the first of many secrets and betrayals that threaten to tear her family apart. >>
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Tilting Towards Joy is a collection of interconnected stories that trace the delicate threads binding lives across continents and through time. Set against the backdrop of rural France, each story follows familiar characters through unfamiliar terrain, offering insight into how we navigate new experiences, unexpected conflicts, and shifting relationships. >>
The poems in this collection explore themes of death and desire. They quest for balance in a world seemingly fraught with contradiction and loss. >>
Tracks: Journeys in Time and Place
Tracks is a compilation of personal travel essays that range across three continents; from Italy, where Genni Gunn was born, to Canada and Mexico, and through Asia, to both reconnect with her sister and witness the emergence of new political realities in Myanmar. >>
Holden's poetry is fused with the compositions of acclaimed musicians Christine Fellows and Jason Tait and John K. Samson of The Weakerthans, resulting in a richly varied and irresistible collection. >>
These poems move from vivid fragments that capture the essence of Transcona—a suburban community stitched to the city of Winnipeg—to sensitive, self-referential engagement of the "lyric I"—a voice made up of melancholy, anxiety and psychotropic experience. >>
Forced to attend counselling sessions in the city until the psychologist rules that she's truly over her gun phobia and fit for service, Aliette Nouvelle finds herself in the midst of a puzzling crime spree. >>
Winner of the 1990 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal, True Copies is an evocative tale of love, loss and deception. A young Québecoise's quest for a missing computer disk leads her through the Silicon Valley and into the streets of Dashiell Hammett's San Francisco. >>
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