Monoceros by Suzette Mayr Coach House Books, 2011. 220 pp. A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated. His secret boyfriend’s girlfriend is relieved. His unicorn-and virginity-obsessed classmate, Faraday, is shattered; she wishes she had made friends with him [...]
Monoceros by Suzette Mayr Coach House Books, 2011 220 pages Reviewed by Brenda Brooks Once upon a time, not so terribly long ago, in the kingdom of Calgary, there lived a virginal young maiden named Faraday who required the healing power of unicorns so desperately that she ordered a whole shipment from the Black Forest [...]
Reptiles on Caffeine by Brooke S. Musterman. Warren Publishing, 2008. 112 pp. Reptiles on Caffeine is an intelligent and delightfully witty book that recounts Musterman’s experiences while working in a coffee shop. Musterman describes a motly cast of characters and compares their human psyches to those of reptiles, noting the similarities between the human and reptilian brains. [...]
Six Metres of Pavement by Farzana Doctor Dundern, 2011. 340 pp. Ismail Boxwala made the worst mistake of his life one summer morning twenty years ago: he forgot his baby daughter in the back seat of his car. After his daughter’s tragic death, he struggles to continue living. A divorce, years of heavy drinking, and [...]
Snowdrift by Lisa McGonigle Oolichan Books, 2011 285 pp. $18.95 Reviewed by Annie Vigna From “Retrospective: How I Ended Up in Canada in the First Place” to “Back At It” Lisa McGonigle, diminutive Irish scholar from North County Dublin, tells a story of her love of snow sports, and the Kootenays, and the life of [...]
The Boy by Betty Jane Hegerat Oolichan Books, 2011. 288 pp. Reviewed by Pearl Luke In 1959, the Cook family—all but one—met a gruesome death, shot and bludgeoned in their Stettler, Alberta home. Policed detained son Robert Raymond Cook, 21, not long after he traded in the family station wagon for a sporty Impala convertible. [...]
The Life and Art of Mildred Valley Thornton by Sheryl Salloum Introduction by Sherrill Grace The fourth book in The Unheralded Artists of BC series During her lifetime (1890–1967), Mildred Valley Thornton (HON. CPA, FRSA) was noted nationally and internationally. The full story of this distinctive artist, with landscapes and portraits, watercolours and oils, is [...]
Tinkers by Paul Harding Windmill, 2011. 192 pages. Reviewed by Brenda Brooks Tinkers opens with George Washington Crosby hallucinating in a rented hospital bed in the living room of the house he built with his own hands decades before. His wife, children and grandchildren keep vigil, coming and going over a period of eight days [...]
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