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Care Of.
Photo of Coyote by Emily Cooper Photography. [Editor’s note: Ivan Coyote’s latest,
Care Of (McClelland & Stewart), is a series of letters some handwritten, some emailed, some sent via Facebook from readers and audience members. Coyote began saving these letters in 2009, sometimes finding a moment to write back but it was only the stuck-in-time halted momentum of the pandemic that allowed them to answer many in earnest. The result is an intimate anthology of queer experience, with youth and elders and parents sharing their own stories after reading Coyote’s or attending one of their many pre-pandemic performances. This excerpt, letters between Coyote and Leslee, who share a deadname a birth name they no longer use was a particular favourite amongst Tyee editors.]
, won the
Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour as well as a Canadian Jewish Literary Award. It was also a finalist for both the Governor General s Award for fiction and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. He lives in Hamilton, Ont.
The Lover, the Lake is a novel by Virginia Pésémapeo Bordeleau (pictured), translated by Susan Ouriou.(Freehand Books)
The Lover, the Lake was a sensation when it was originally published in French. Now available in English,
The Lover, the Lake is a celebration of Indigenous sexuality and sensuality. It is the story of a forbidden but fulfilling love affair between Wabougouni and Gabrie, set against the backdrop of Lake Abitibi.