Giving either interpretation the weight of finality might bring the story crashing down upon itself
by : David Pitt
Fiction
A captivating read for youth aged 9 to 12
Important lessons from the importance of family ties to the idea that the best cakes are made from locally sourced, homemade ingredients
Malagash is a beautifully wrought story about a young girl’s unique means of coping with her father’s mortality
This uniquely narrated novel is a quick and beautiful read
An excerpt from This Side of Sad (copyright (c) 2017, used by permission of Goose Lane Editions), Karen Smythe’s hotly anticipated first novel. Smythe was a fiction editor of the Pottersfield Portfolio and has published short stories with some of Canada’s best literary journals.
Home is both a memory and an elusive goal in these stories about moving and settling, trying to connect and missing connections
An excerpt from Genevieve Graham’s tale of love in the time of the Acadian Expulsion
The Hell of It All is a solid crime thriller that leaves the reader wanting more
John Alex has a very folksy voice but this is also a philosophical book
And the fact that the protagonist is happiest when she’s fully in command of her life may surprise non-readers of romance still trapped in the myth that the genre is not feminist literature
Most of us, pushed to our limits, are capable of unexpected bravery
