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...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
wet Leanne DunicPublisher: Talonbooks Book Description In Wet, a transient Chinese American model working in Singapore thirsts for the unattainable: fair labour rights, the extinguishing of nearby forest fires, breathable air, healthy habitats for animals, human...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
Teeth Dallas HuntPublisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description This is a book about grief, death and longing. It’s about the gristle that lodges itself deep into one’s gums, between incisors and canines. Teeth details not only the symptoms of colonization, but also...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
The Knot of My Tongue Zehra NaqviPublisher: McClelland & Stewart Book Description For readers of Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come for Us, here is a searing, multidimensional debut about the search for language and self, which is life itself. I knew it was time to...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 9, 2025
shima shō yamagushikuPublisher: McClelland & Stewart Book Description A vivid, expansive vision of intergenerational witness and repair. The village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling into the bay. shima is a mosaic of the...