When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night,...
Canada Reads 2024 (Finalists)
In this collection you will find the finalists for CBC Canada Reads 2024. Learn more about the finalists on the CBC Canada Reads website. Browse the long list here. Thanks to CBC's support since 2016, we have been able to release accessible formats simultaneously with the announcement of the program shortlist. For more information, please visit the CBC Canada Reads website.
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Author:Johns, JessicaSummary: - Author:Innes, DanielSummary:
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders. Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina...
- Author:Fortune, CarleySummary:
A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects, in this breathtaking new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail...
- Author:Mutonji, TéaSummary:
Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year. In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese...
- Author:Leroux, CatherineSummary:
A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was...
