Black Star is a dark comedy, both bitingly funny and transgressive, an unflinching and unsentimental exploration of the female experience, academia, and the idea of power that burns in the mind as white as acid.
Raw, violent, and at times absurd, Borderline treats all things — the city, class, education, mental health, despair, sexuality, love, and art, with an unflinching, unblinking regard.
By Nelly Arcan (translated by Jacob Homel)
Rose Dubois and Julie O’Brien find themselves on the roof of a Montreal apartment building on a scorching summer’s day, and from that moment on their fates are intertwined. Worldwide climate change and dramatic shifts in weather patterns foreshadow their predestined suffering.
By Tom Osborne
From the author of Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit and Foozlers comes another tale of madcap human folly. Budge is a novel about addiction, rehabilitation, and finding the meaning of life.
By Sun Belt
Sun Belt’s collaborative work of fiction is a genre-defying chronicle of a tar sands company town.
Capper is a modern chronicle of a handicapped woman who chooses a life of criminality over poverty. Told in gritty realism, the novel is set in the underbelly of Vancouver’s east side. T
The stories in Carthaginian Peace and Other Stories are centred in the domestic and every day. They follow youngish lovers and domestic partners attempting to find a cure for cosmic loneliness in an unstable society.
By Doug Diaczuk
Chalk is a tender story about love and loss, following a broken-hearted thirty-something cubicle worker, free-falling from every ledge of his life. Post-break-up and blue, he feels like nothing matters, that he has become invisible, like a chalk outline on the floor, empty inside.
