JUNE 2024. A 2024 Seaboard Review Book Pick. Connected via the fictional town of St Anne’s, a community along Nova Scotia’s western shore, each story takes its title from the children’s rhyme Counting Crows. One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a message, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven… Read more »
JUNE 2024. Born in China and raised in Montreal, Liz is about to land in Germany for a summer physics internship at the end of her freshman year. Eager for a new beginning, she hopes to break free of her unrealized childhood dream of becoming a pianist, a dead-end romantic relationship, and the tug of… Read more »
JUNE 2024. The Thickness of Ice is a tender and tragic tale set in the remote subarctic town of Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay. The barren icy landscape pervades the characters’ lives and relationships. As the novel opens Wade confesses that he was responsible for the death of his best friend Jack three years after meeting him. They had been arguing about Tess, a Dene woman… Read more »
PUB DATE May 2024 Canada’s Long Fight against Democracy is a sweeping overview of Canadian-backed coups since 1950. It documents Canada’s contribution to the ouster of over 20 elected governments from Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran to Patrice Lumumba in Congo, Salvador Allende in Chile and Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti. As part of subverting democracy, Ottawa has cut… Read more »
APRIL 2024. In the fiery political debates in and about Italy, silence reigns about the country’s colonial legacy. By reducing the European colonial sweep to Britain and France, Italy has effectively concealed an enduring phenomenon that lasted close to 80 years (1882 to 1960). It also blots out the history of the countries it colonized… Read more »
MARCH 2024. Two young writers who grew up in the shadow of the huge chimneys of a copper refinery in Rouyn-Noranda speak out. They refuse to be lulled by the songs of gold that have silenced the people who built the city and enriched the foundry owners for decades. They subtly and poetically illustrate the… Read more »
NOVEMBER 2023. Wendake, Odanak, Wôlinak, Pointe-du-Lac, Kahnawake, Kanesatake, Akwesasne, Kitigan Zibi are communities located all along the St. Lawrence River valley and its tributaries and are known as the Seven Nations of Canada. They have been home to descendants of the Huron-Wendat, Algonquin, Nipissing, and Iroquois nations. These First Nations have in common the fact… Read more »
NOVEMBER 2023. Muddy boots, cold hands, a pocket full of fossils, a mind full of existential questions. These beautifully illustrated stories of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada are about the curious men and women who crossed the oceans from Europe to explore, map, draw, puzzle about, collect and exhibit nature in Canada. Informed by French,… Read more »
Bloody Sunday (1972) catapulted the Irish “troubles” onto the world stage, exacerbating suspicion in US intelligence circles that the IRA might turn to the Soviets for guns. South Boston native Raymond Daly, just off a CIA stint in Laos, is sent to Ireland to re-establish a line running guns to the IRA. He deftly earns… Read more »
When Major-General Déogratias Nsabimana, Chief of Staff of Rwanda’s Army, was assassinated after the invasion of the country, civil war and then genocide, his widow and their six children found ways to overcome the rupture of their family—and their country. This is their story. Major-General Nsabimana, nicknamed “Castar,” died when the Rwandan presidential plane was… Read more »
