Curtis Sittenfeld's fiction often focusses on the question of a woman's identity, shifting and pulsing, whether from the perspective of a teenage girl or a president's wife (as in Prep and American Wife). Random House, 2013 When Daisy and Violet were little girls, twins, the sign on their bedroom
A Tap on the Window feels like the quintessential late-summer read. I have to move indoors with my book sooner on August evenings, because the light doesn't last as long, but the neighbourhood still moves to other summer rhythms. And, so, that old yearning for a page-turner. Doubleday -
The reader of Wayne Grady's first novel is held in as careful an embrace as the woman in the dancing couple on Emancipation Day's cover. Doubleday Canada - Random House Canada 2013 There is a sense that each word of the story has been chosen deliberately, even without
"I'm not gong to let on I was born here," Jane begins. It's 1977 and she is eighty-four years old, touring the lighthouse at Point Lucia which she last saw when she was 19. Atria Books - Simon and Schuster, 2013 Christina Schwarz's novel immediately immerses readers in another
Last week, I said that "Carried Away" feels like a quintessential Munro story to me. 1994; Penguin, 2007 Its southwestern Ontario setting. The matters of class. An up-close examination of a blatant tragedy. Some far-away ruminating on trauma of a quieter sort. A woman looking back on a
