![]() ![]() Utopia seeps into your marrow, living there long after the final page. Utopia, by Heidi Sopinka, Hamish Hamilton A brilliant and surprising debut novel that is smart, unaffected and full of the joys and uncertainties of being human. Good Girl is very funny, original and fully absorbing. Good Girl, by Anna Fitzpatrick, Flying BooksĪlong with Emma Healey’s memoir, Best Young Woman Job Book, Anna Fitzpatrick’s Good Girl immediately comes to mind when I think about my favourite reads of the year. Miguel Syjuco, author of I Was the President’s Mistress!! Taken together, they chart the trajectory of a literary genius. Each of his unique novels has the weight of something with its own gravity. Christopher Evans, author of Nothing Could Be Further from the Truthīlack Dove, by Colin McAdam, Hamish HamiltonĬolin McAdam is one of Canada’s best writers and deserves to be widely read everywhere. Full of unsettling surprises and clever connections, without resorting to smugness, the book ranks among Mandel’s best. And despite its future-gazing – or maybe because of it – it still feels very timely. John Mandel, HarperCollinsĬovering a span of nearly 500 years, Sea of Tranquility is grand in scope, but intimate in detail. Bobbi French, author of The Good Women of Safe Harbour A gripping, graceful and impeccable crafted novel. From the perspectives of a chorus of beautifully complex characters, Carrie Snyder weaves a tale that artfully propels toward the most poignant of endings. Alexander MacLeod, author of Animal Personįrancie’s Got a Gun, by Carrie Snyder, Knopf CanadaĪ stirring portrait of a small town centred on a young girl navigating the chaos that is family. If the topic is longing, loneliness or the search for love in an untethered world, no one writes with more wisdom or more beautifully. ![]() ![]() There’s 50 years of work in this book, all his greatest hits, but every piece is still urgent. This Time, That Place: Selected Stories, by Clark Blaise, Biblioasis To say I can almost smell this story is not an exaggeration. Each of her books is better than the last, and When We Lost Our Heads is a testament to that: it is a cleaver, sweet, horrible tale with beautifully devious characters lush with details that jump off the page. As a writer working during the same period as the great Heather O’Neill, I can say that she makes us all better as we strive to her creative heights. ![]()
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