by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 10, 2025
Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love Sarah LeavittPublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Book Description A poignant and beautifully illustrated graphic memoir about love and loss and navigating a new life In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt’s partner of...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 10, 2025
Coexistence: Stories Billy-Ray BelcourtPublisher: Hamish Hamilton Book Description A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from one of contemporary literature’s most boundless minds. Across the prairies and Canada’s west coast, on...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
The Other Valley Scott Alexander HowardPublisher: Simon & Schuster Canada Book Description For fans of Emily St. John Mandel, David Mitchell, and Kazuo Ishiguro, an exquisite literary speculative novel set in an unnamed valley, where bereaved residents can...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
A Reluctant Mother Deirdre Simon DorePublisher: Ronsdale Press Book Description “Plot twists galore, along with symbols (deer, and oh yes, those ravens); and multiple perspectives abound. It takes nearly to the novel’s end to truly unravel the many up-and-down turns...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
Midway Kayla CzagaPublisher: House of Anansi Press Book Description Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, Midway is an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. “I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes, whatever it is...
