The Black Peacock
A work of poetic prose in which two overs orbit each from their first meeting in university in the 1960s to being reunited in the Caribbean.
The Family Took Shape
A teenage girl describes her life in the Hindi community in Toronto, with a widowed mother, an autistic brother, and an auntie whose cooking show is something of a joke as she herself does not know how to cook.
The Jane Loop
A story of sexual self-discovery by a young man growing up in the Toronto suburbs in the early 1960s.
The Pain Tree
In these ten stories, the great award-winning Olive Senior explores characters whose lives have been shaped, or twisted, by the African diaspora and centuries of colonization.
The Unfinished Dollhouse
A memoir in which the author learns to love her child through a difficult journey in which her child rejects the traditional gender roles she projects on to him.
The Darkhouse
In this novel for teens, a girl discovers that her father's amateur science experiments have sinister goals.
Delicate
A YA novel that deals frankly with the land mines and pitfalls of teen relationships and sexuality through the lives of two complex but relatable characters.
Transferral
A YA speculative fiction novel set in an alternate universe where sick people are made healthy by transferring their illnesses to criminals.
The Tiffin
Middle-grade novel about a boy in India who tries to find his birth mother years after he was separated from her by a message gone astray.
Live to Tell
A psychological thriller about a girl who wakes up in the hospital and must reconstruct the events of an evening she can’t remember.
