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Literature, Essays, Canadian non-fiction
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Dans une forme ouverte et libre, où surviennent plusieurs visites de l’inattendu, Recueillir de Louise Warren offre l’histoire d’une écriture…
vécue au présent. D’abord, les gestes d’origine : lire, souligner, prélever, découper, coller. Depuis les premiers journaux, le geste d’écrire est marqué par la pratique du collage et de la citation. Puis, l’attention de l’écrivaine s’élargit aux autres quêtes qui la tiennent en alerte. Les retours de sa mythologie intime. La réflexion sur le fragment. Les échos des livres et de ses lectures. Le rêve, qui accompagne la recherche. L’art poétique et la pensée de la création en acte.
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Journals and memoirs, Biography, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER An inventive memoir about one family's escape from Vietnam and the father's mysterious disappearance along the way. This…
book is an intricate exploration of a searching mind, shedding light on the psyche of a grieving son, as he chases certainty and seeks elusive resolution. With the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning. Among the millions of people who fled Vietnam by boat was Vinh Nguyen, along with his mother and siblings, and his father, who left separately and then mysteriously vanished. Decades later, Nguyen goes looking for answers. What he discovers is a sea of questions drifting above sunken truths. To find his father—and anchor himself in the present—Nguyen must piece together the debris of history with family stories that have been scattered across generations and continents, kept for years in broken hearts and guarded silences. As the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War approaches, The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse takes readers on a poignant tour of disappeared refugee camps, abandoned family homes, and reimagined lives. Part fractured reminiscence, part invented history, and part fictional fabulation, Nguyen's story is about learning to live with what's already lost and the memories of what might have been
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Canadian non-fiction, Poetry
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Borrowing its title from a finance term—"the estimated price of a good or service for which no market price exists"—Shadow…
Price is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens. What gives life value? How do we serve existing societal structures that determine its cost? Employing both surreal and documentary imagery, Farah Ghafoor's arresting collection articulates how narrative is used to revise the past and manipulate the future, ultimately forming our present-day climate crisis. Interrogating personal complicity, generational implications, and the shock of our collective disregard for a world that sustains every living thing, Shadow Price captures the complexities of living and writing as a young poet born in the year that "climate change denial" first appeared in print. Mourning the loss of Earth's biodiversity, from insects to mammoths to trees, these introspective poems invite us to consider the risks and rewards of loving what may vanish in our lifetime. Shadow Price charges readers to contemplate their power and purpose in the world today, recognizing that there is hope even in the belly of the beast
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Historical fiction, Serious and literary fictionLiterature, Canadian non-fiction
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Ce livre autofictif à fleur de peau compose une partition en quatre mouvements sur les expériences de la maternité, de…
la dépression et de la précarité chez une femme qui écrit. Talismans, icônes et retailles : Martina Chumova tisse réel et fictions, rêves et images de sa vie intérieure, et convoque une communauté d'écritures-soeurs pour creuser les mythes du foyer, de la famille, de la force et de la faiblesse. Je mets mes rêves sur la table s'affranchit des discours oppressifs liés à l'identité et à la migration, et rejoint une existence en évolution constante, renouant avec les possibilités qui sommeillent en nous
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Serious and literary fiction, Historical fictionLiterature, Canadian non-fiction
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Ce livre autofictif à fleur de peau compose une partition en quatre mouvements sur les expériences de la maternité, de…
la dépression et de la précarité chez une femme qui écrit. Talismans, icônes et retailles : Martina Chumova tisse réel et fictions, rêves et images de sa vie intérieure, et convoque une communauté d'écritures-soeurs pour creuser les mythes du foyer, de la famille, de la force et de la faiblesse. Je mets mes rêves sur la table s'affranchit des discours oppressifs liés à l'identité et à la migration, et rejoint une existence en évolution constante, renouant avec les possibilités qui sommeillent en nous
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Canadian non-fiction, Drama
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In the vibrant heart of Toronto’s Gerrard India Bazaar, Dilpreet and his daughters, Jasmeet and Simran, are frantically preparing to…
open their new sari shop in time for Canada Day. While Jasmeet prepares designs for the store’s logo and signs, she is also preparing for her high-school prom. Meanwhile, Simran anxiously awaits her LSAT scores that will grant her access to the best law schools in the country. Amidst the flurry of activity, Simran experiences a mental-health crisis, threatening to derail not only her future but the family’s shared dream. As she spirals into a dangerous breakdown, the family's dedication to their shop and to each other is put to the ultimate test.Little Pretty and The Exceptional is a candid and compassionate portrait of a family haunted by a traumatic past, exposing the stigmas surrounding mental health in the South Asian community. This heartfelt tale reveals what it truly means to support and care for our loved ones during their darkest times.
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Canadian non-fiction, Drama
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“The map of the land is in our blood.”A woman trawls the bottom of a riverbed with a makeshift plough,…
hoping to dislodge something—anything. The world has drastically changed: rivers run dry, rampant bushfires leave little left to burn. Still she persists searching for the stories of her loved ones, maybe even her own. She is not alone—an ancestor watches nearby. This desolate landscape is about to unearth its long-held secrets.Inspired by the grassroots organization Drag the Red, which searches for evidence of missing Indigenous and settler women, girls, 2 Spirit, and people of all genders in the Red River of Treaty One Territory, this ethereal and engrossing drama is a profound offering to those who persevere in spite of sorrow. Told in Anishinaabemowin, English, and French, Tara Beagan’s prophetic play draws a direct connection between the treatment of Indigenous peoples and the abuse inflicted on the land. Fluid and majestic like the river itself, Rise, Red River is an invocation, a revelation, and a call to action.