by Johanna Skibsrud (2010)
Johanna Skibsrud's debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota, and an unfinished boat in Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsrud's narrator maps her father's past.
Sarah Selecky
A woman who plans to conceive ends up in the arms of her husband's best friend; a man who baby-sits a neglected four-year-old ends up questioning his own dysfunctional relationship; a chance encounter at a gala event causes a woman to remember when she volunteered for a nightmarish drug-testing clinic. In "Standing up for Janey", a woman discovers that her best friend who is about to get married has just had an affair.
Kathleen Winter
Born a boy and a girl but raised as a boy, Wayne or "Annabel" struggles with his identity growing up in a small Canadian town and seeks freedom by moving to the city.
C. S. Richardson
An illiterate Parisian baker and a deformed reclusive woman form an unlikely romance.
Barbara Gowdy
Helpless by Barbara Gowdy is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.