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Here are the Canadian memoirs, biographies, essay collections and narrative nonfiction books we are excited to read in the second half of 2022.

Natasha Gilmore, Idlewild Books and Open Borders Books, NYC : This book contains two novellas and some short stories set around Colombia (and occasionally Miami). The narration is often low-affect, sharply cynical, and wryly observed. There’s a cutting honesty in the voice throughout the book that feels totally absent from so much literature now. It reminded me of the feeling of encountering something truly when I was a teenager. But then there’s just the crushing reality of coming into sexuality as a teen, colorism and racism in Colombia, the restlessness wrought by capitalism and the de...

Trolling Twitter, I find a quote from poet Kay Ryan on Jason Guriel’s feed: “When I started writing nobody rhymed – it was in utter disrepute. Yet rhyme was a siren to me.” Forgotten Work, Guriel’s new novel in verse, succumbs to this siren call with its heroic couplets acting as the engine for a futuristic tale of post-apocalyptic Montreal and the characters who dwell there – their new technologies and fan-boy pedantic obsessions with obscure details and music. The novel is a whirlwind of characters, mysteries, and happenings capable of blurring cohesiveness into a set of succul...