One family, one child, and the years of waiting in between.When Tarah Schwartz miscarried for the first time at almost 5 months, it was devastating. Determined to try again, more miscarriages would follow, threatening her stability and her relations...
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An evil is spreading across Europe -- how can one man an ocean away do anything about it?Philippe is a man of routine. He has a job, a wife, two kids, and an uneventful life in the suburbs of Montreal. His days as a student chasing neo-Nazis across ...
How do you change the world?How do you change the world? Meet LÉA, polyglot, labor activist, farbrente feminist. Born to a large Jewish family and raised in a French Catholic town, LÉA moves fluidly between languages and cultures. Her search for mea...
This autobiographical novel traces a woman's journey from her youth in Socialist Eastern Europe to her transplanted life in Montreal, Canada. She is a precocious, thoughtful child, whose early life in Romania is marked by the scarcities of the time ...
KEROUAC & PRESLEY takes you on the road, guitar slung over your shoulder. Beginning in the Montreal neighborhood where a teenage girl was brutally murdered in 1975, the International Year of the Woman, the story travels to an Abbey in Connecticut wh...
In 1970, David Homel escaped the American draft by moving to Paris. But a hiking accident in Spain led to a harrowing journey through botched surgeries, opiate addiction, the loneliness of a crippled traveler, and the constant pain that would define...
First published in 1997, NO CRYSTAL STAIR is an absorbing story of urban struggle in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find gainful employment if she passes as white. Set in the Montreal working class neighb...
A photographer takes pictures of his wife. She watches him look. What do they see and how does that change over the years? I AN THE EARTH THE PLANTS GROW THROUGH is about what keeps people together—and what can pull them apart. As Tomas and Marie cr...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Montreal writer Dany Laferrière became "Immortal" in 2015, when he was inducted into the Académie française, the highest honour in all French literature—and the first Quebecer and only second Black writer to receive such an...
Fiction. Women's Studies. Translated by Katia Grubisic. DAUGHTER OF HERE is an experiment in memory, desire, and time. As she sifts through her international whirlwind romance with Célestin, her larger-than-life love for her daughter Mo, and her own...
Children's Literature. African & African American Studies. Part fable, part metaphor, LITTLE GIRL GAZELLE is an extraordinarily beautiful picture book focused on discrimination and equality—and presenting parents' subtle efforts to ready their black...