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Grande plaine IV

Grande plaine IV

Think back to a road trip you’ve taken. Grande Plaine IV is a bit like that road trip: funny and sweet, clever and heartfelt. Young.

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Nina

Nina

A straightforward detective story full of great, gritty, and questionable characters quickly spins into a self-reflexive narrative, twisted in on itself.

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Preaching to the Fish

Preaching to the Fish

Le sermon aux poissons is the first book in a Lisbon-based trilogy that loves nothing more than to blur the lines between myth and reality.

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The Multicoloured Album

The Multicoloured Album

When, at the moment of her last rites, the priest asked my great-grandmother if she was afraid of death, she answered, “Death, Father, I have seen it 17 times.”

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An Ideal Sparseness?

An Ideal Sparseness?

Nature has no secret plan. Nature is not a kind organizer. Nature doesn’t give a shit. She does her thing. Drops us through the hole, then waits.

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Hollywood

Hollywood

Marc Séguin vividly describes the mundane but germane moments of being that make up a life.

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In the Army

In the Army

We’d embed ourselves in the Canadian Forces like undercover journalists…beat them at their own game and come out with first-hand knowledge.

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Patchwork

Patchwork

La porte du ciel is a bright patchwork. We follow “two little girls under the Louisiana sun, one brown as tea, the other white as milk,” through childhood, adolescence, and the American Civil War.

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Ce qu’il en reste

Ce qu’il en reste

Love and friendship are at the heart of this first novel from filmmaker Julie Hivon as twenty-somethings struggle to shape their own lives, making something whole out of what’s left (ce qu’il en reste) of their pasts.

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Spaces

Spaces

Espaces is a deeply unsettling piece of writing that provides insights into people’s deepest fears. While the setting is typical of a coming-of-age story, the content is anything but hopeful and carefree.