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It's Asian Heritage Month and the City of Guelph's bookstore The Bookshelf has a selection of books for adults and young adults readers. The books explore a variety of topics that include identity, culture, capitalist consumption and more.
288 pages | $24.95 “If women are crazy it’s because they contain multitudes, which is because they have to,” thinks our eponymous protagonist in Victoria Sees It. Debut novelist Carrie Jenkins has written a dark, propulsive and original novel: A feminist interrogation of madness, wrapped in a gothic mystery. At first glance, the pieces are a familiar assortment of tropes: A brilliant, troubled outsider; a missing blonde; the lingering question of our protagonist’s sanity. And yet Victoria Sees It feels utterly and unsettlingly new. The deeper you get into the story, the less you know ...
The Crash Palace is a book by Andrew Wedderburn.(Coach House Books, Malcolm Overend) The Crash Palace is about a woman named Audrey, who used to work in the oil fields and attend parties at a remote lodge in the wilderness known as the Crash Palace. Audrey has long left that life behind her, and now has a daughter. But one night, she is compelled to return to the now-abandoned Crash Palace — where she must also reckon with her past. When you can read it: Jan. 12, 2021 Andrew Wedderburn is a writer from Alberta. He is also the author of The Milk Chicken Bomb, which was a finalist for the A...