A Complicated Kindness
By: Miriam Toews
3.68
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voic…
Want to Read $ 11.99"But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?"-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
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1. Lullabies for Little Criminals
By: Heather O'Neill
4.03
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable … read more
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- canadian literature
- young adult
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"Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
"Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it."-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
2. The Stone Angel
By: Margaret Laurence , Adele Wiseman
3.77
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The Stone Angel , The Diviners , and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret La… read more
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"Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg."-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
"Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young."-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
"Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to."-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
"I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'…"-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
3. For Today I Am a Boy
By: Kim Fu
3.91
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Peter Huang and his sisters--elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant--grow up in a h… read more
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- canada
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4. Holding Still For As Long As Possible
By: Zoe Whittall
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
What is it like to grow into adulthood with the war on terror as your defining political memory, wi… read more
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5. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
By: Vincent Lam
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures invites us into a world where the ordinary becomes the critical in … read more
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6. Half Blood Blues
By: Esi Edugyan
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymous Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, was… read more
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- fiction
- canada
7. Late Nights on Air
By: Elizabeth Hay
3.88
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs.… read more
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8. Monkey Beach
By: Eden Robinson
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Five hundred miles north of Vancouver is Kitamaat, an Indian reservation in the homeland of the Hai… read more
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9. A Complicated Kindness
By: Miriam Toews
3.68
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
In this stunning coming-of-age novel, award-winner Miriam Toews balances grief and hope in the voic… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- coming of age
- canadian literature
- young adult
- religion
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"...and I put on "All My Love" and watched the sun rise yet again and thought thank you Robert Plant for all your love but do you have anymore?"-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
"One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey."-Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
10. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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11. Who Has Seen the Wind
By: W.O. Mitchell
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When W.O. Mitchell died in 1998 he was described as "Canada's best-loved writer." Every commentator… read more
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12. The Break
By: Katherena Vermette
4.36
Format: 39 pages, Paperback
2016 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize finalist When Stella, a young Metis mother, looks out her … read more
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13. In the Skin of a Lion
By: Michael Ondaatje
4.42
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between hist… read more
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14. Not Wanted On The Voyage
By: Timothy Findley
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Not Wanted on the Voyageis the story of the great flood and the first time the world ended, filed w… read more
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15. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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16. The Birth House
By: Ami McKay
4.03
Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Sco… read more
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"No matter what you do, someone always knew you would."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"Each day brings another handful of opportunities. It's up to you to make the best of what you're given."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing."-Ami McKay, The Birth House
"Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too…"-Ami McKay, The Birth House
17. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
18. Hey, Good Luck Out There
By: Georgia Toews
3.51
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Subversive, captivating and vividly attuned to both the extraordinary and the mundane, Georgia Toew… read more
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19. Daughter
By: Claudia Dey
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more
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20. Be My Love
By: Kit Pearson
3.63
Format: 224 pages, ebook
One summer will change everything. For as long as she can remember, Maisie has spent her summers… read more
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21. Baby Drag Queen
By: C.A. Tanaka
3.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Transgender teen Ichiro enters a drag contest in hopes of earning enough money to live off the grid… read more
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