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Through Black Spruce
THROUGH BLACK SPRUCE by Joseph Boyden (Viking Canada), 256 pages, $34 cloth. Rating: NNNN Joseph Boyden's second novel is stunning at being a million things... -
Red Dog, Red Dog
RED DOG, RED DOG by Patrick Lane (McClelland & Stewart), 332 pages, $32.99 cloth. Rating: NNNNSo you're one of Canada's most highly acclaimed poets, author... -
Patrick Lane
PATRICK LANE reading tonight (Thursday, October 30), 8 pm, at the Brigantine Room.Though Patrick Lane is in his hotel room in Calgary and I'm uncomfortably... -
San Fran survivor
SO MANY WAYS TO SLEEP BADLY by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (City Lights), 256 pages, $15.95 paper. Rating: NNNNWhen I read the first chapter of the... -
Sad survivor
INNERCITY GIRL LIKE ME by Sabrina Bernardo (HarperCollins Canada), 293 pages, $15.99 paper. Rating: NNOh, personal strife memoirs - you have a bad rep but... -
Dey lights up
STUNT by Claudia Dey (Coach House), 200 pages, $19.95 paper. Rating: NNNNReading stunt is like arriving at a buffet where every dish on the table... -
Trials of Pauline
TELL EVERYTHING by Sally Cooper (Dundurn), 216 pages, $21.99 cloth. Rating: NNNNTell Everything tells us everything – in selected, suspenseful, breathless segments – that makes... -
Withdrawals wit
THE WITHDRAWAL METHOD by Pasha Malla (House of Anansi), 256 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating: NNNPasha Mallas first book of stories features myriad characters with a...