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Tag Archives: Queer Fiction
A Review of Farzana Doctor’s Six Metres of Pavement: A Moving Novel about Chosen Family
I bought and started reading Farzana Doctor’s second novel Six Metres of Pavement with specific and high expectations: not only has it just been shortlisted for the 2012 Toronto Book award, it was named one of Now Magazine’s top ten books … Continue reading
For Anyone with a Gender: A Review of Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, Edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman
Edited by the impressive team of Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman—an adorable married couple (see photo below)—the collection Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme (2011) certainly does live up to its name. It’s refreshing to see an anthology reflect … Continue reading
Zoe Whittall’s Bottle Rocket Hearts: A Rough and Exhilirating Ride through Queer Montreal
Eve, the spunky 19-year-old protagonist of Zoe Whittall’s debut novel Bottle Rocket Hearts (2007), is a 90s rebel girl, screaming along with Kathleen Hanna as she rides her bike down Montreal’s Ste Catherines street in her silver spray-painted doc martens. … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian, Coming-of-age, Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Montreal, Queer, Sex Work, Zoe Whittall
Tagged Book Review, books, Cormorant Books, Lesbian Fiction, literature, Queer Fiction
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Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here: A Novel to Give Yourself Over to
For readers unaccustomed to the Black Caribbean vernacular that begins Dionne Brand’s 1996 novel In Another Place, Not Here—like me—there’s a bit of an initial hurdle to leap over to sink into this book. But trust me, it’s worth it; … Continue reading
Shani Mootoo’s Valmiki’s Daughter: A Father and Daughter Struggle with Queerness in This Rich Sensual Novel
Any discussion at all of Shani Mootoo I must precede with an acknowledgement that I love, love, LOVE, her writing. I think she’s one of the most talented writers or artists period whose work I am familiar with—she happens to … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian, Caribbean, Coming-of-age, Fiction, Gay, Lesbian, Postcolonial, Queer, Shani Mootoo, South Asian
Tagged books, Canadian Fiction, House of Anansi, literature, Postcolonial Fiction, Queer Fiction
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