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Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
Par Danny Ramadan. 2024
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place."Writing this memoir is a betrayal." So begins this…
electrifying personal account from Danny Ramadan, a celebrated novelist who has long enjoyed the shield his fiction provides. Now, to tell the story of his life, he must revisit dark corners of his past he’d rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to.Starting with his family’s humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing journey: to the city’s underground network of queer safe homes; to a clandestine party at a secluded villa in Cairo; through Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East, a reckless hoax that threatens the safety of Syria’s LGBTQ+ community, and a traumatic six-week imprisonment; to beaches and sunsets with friends in Beirut; to an arrival in Vancouver that’s not as smooth as it promised to be; and ultimately to a life of hard-won comfort and love.What emerges is a powerful refutation of the oversimplified refugee narrative—a book that holds space for joy alongside sorrow, for nuance and complicated ambivalences. Written with fearless intimacy, Crooked Teeth is a singular achievement in which a master storyteller learns that his greatest story is his own.
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Par Niigaan Sinclair. 2024
From ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliationNiigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of this…
country's most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures, communities, and reconciliation in Canada. In his debut collection of stories, observations, and thoughts about Winnipeg, the place he calls "ground zero" of Canada's future, read about the complex history and contributions of this place alongside the radical solutions to injustice and violence found here, presenting solutions for a country that has forgotten principles of treaty and inclusivity. It is here, in the place where Canada began—where the land, water, people, and animals meet— that a path "from the centre" is happening for all to see.At a crucial and fragile moment in Canada's long history with Indigenous peoples, one of our most essential writers begins at the centre, capturing a web spanning centuries of community, art, and resistance. Based on years' worth of columns, Niigaan Sinclair delivers a defining essay collection on the resilience of Indigenous peoples. Here, we meet the creators, leaders, and everyday people preserving the beauty of their heritage one day at a time. But we also meet the ugliest side of colonialism, the Indian Act, and the communities who suffer most from its atrocities. Sinclair uses the story of Winnipeg to illuminate the reality of Indigenous life all over what is called Canada. This is a book that demands change and celebrates those fighting for it, that reminds us of what must be reconciled and holds accountable those who must do the work. It's a book that reminds us of the power that comes from loving a place, even as that place is violently taken away from you, and the magic of fighting your way back to it.
Ristigouche: le long cours de la rivière sauvage
Par Philip Lee. 2024
Entre le Québec et le Nouveau-Brunswick s'étend une rivière majestueuse aux eaux d'une rare transparence, aux imposantes berges boisées, où…
foisonne une population de saumon qui en a fait un lieu prisé des animaux et des hommes depuis des temps immémoriaux : la Ristigouche. Naviguant ses flots depuis l'enfance, l'écrivain et journaliste Philip Lee remonte dans son canot pour nous entraîner sur les anciennes routes de portage jusqu'au cours principal, qu'il descend vers l'estuaire de la baie des Chaleurs. Dans une prose aussi souple que les sinuosités de la rivière, il nous en raconte l'histoire, en explore les innombrables strates - géologiques, environnementales, humaines, industrielles - et nous invite à découvrir cet écosystème parmi les plus riches de notre planète pour mieux le protéger. Ristigouche, c'est faire du canot en compagnie du meilleur guide imaginable. En plus d'être un grand conteur, Philip est un fabuleux chercheur. Vous croiserez bien sûr des gens riches et célèbres - les Irving du Nouveau-Brunswick, Teddy Roosevelt, les Vanderbilt, le marquis de Lorne et son épouse, la princesse Louise, fille de la reine Victoria -, mais vous rencontrerez aussi des gens ordinaires qui vivent le long de la rivière et vous vous en éprendrez : bûcherons, pêcheurs, francophones, anglophones, Mi'gmaq. C'est un cours d'eau qui a connu bien des tumultes, depuis l'ignoble expulsion des Acadiens il y a près de trois siècles jusqu'à ce jour de 1981 où des agents de la Sûreté du Québec et des gardes-pêche québécois ont battu et arrêté des membres de la Première Nation de Listuguj pour avoir pêché le saumon au filet. Le saumon, bien sûr, est au cœur de ce superbe livre, tout comme il est l'attraction principale des eaux cristallines de la Ristigouche. Infatigable défenseur de l'espèce, Philip décrit les ravages de la surpêche, de l'exploitation forestière, de la pollution et du changement climatique. Ce livre est son plaidoyer pour la conservation, la protection et la restauration de ce magnifique cours d'eau. Mais c'est aussi, par bonheur, un livre rempli d'amour pour la rivière et d'espoir pour son avenir. Roy MacGregor, auteur et chroniqueur
Wollstonecraft
Par Sarah Berthiaume. 2023
Marie est autrice. Son dernier roman a soulevé l'ire de ses modèles féministes et l'a laissée vidée, incapable d'écrire. Après…
plusieurs fausses couches, suivant des conseils obtenus par télémédecine, elle conserve ses fœtus au congélateur afin de les soumettre à des tests, pendant que Perceval, son chum, coécrit des poèmes avec l'algorithme qu'il a créé et que son amie Claire, ancienne comédienne, gravit les échelons de la vente de Tupperware. Par une sinistre nuit de novembre, alors que la pluie fouette les vitres et que retentissent les cris stridents d'une imprimante 3D, Marie accouche d'une idée funeste qui va tout faire basculer. S'inspirant librement de la vie de Mary Shelley et de son Frankenstein, Sarah Berthiaume sonde les abysses de la création et de la procréation dans une comédie gothique, féministe et dystopique qui dissèque nos propres monstruosités
Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
Par Danny Ramadan. 2024
A queer Syrian refugee reckons with a life spent out of place.&“Writing this memoir is a betrayal.&” So begins this…
electrifying personal account from Danny Ramadan, a celebrated novelist who has long enjoyed the shield his fiction provides. Now, to tell the story of his life, he must revisit dark corners of his past he&’d rather forget and unearth memories of a city he can no longer return to.Starting with his family&’s humble beginnings in Damascus, he takes readers on an epic, border-crossing journey: to the city&’s underground network of queer safe homes; to a clandestine party at a secluded villa in Cairo; through Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East, a reckless hoax that threatens the safety of Syria&’s LGBTQ+ community, and a traumatic six-week imprisonment; to beaches and sunsets with friends in Beirut; to an arrival in Vancouver that&’s not as smooth as it promised to be; and ultimately to a life of hard-won comfort and love.What emerges is a powerful refutation of the oversimplified refugee narrative—a book that holds space for joy alongside sorrow, for nuance and complicated ambivalences. Written with fearless intimacy, Crooked Teeth is a singular achievement in which a master storyteller learns that his greatest story is his own.
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Par Niigaan Sinclair. 2024
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom ground zero of this country's most important project: reconciliationNiigaan Sinclair has been called provocative, revolutionary, and one of…
this country's most influential thinkers on the issues impacting Indigenous cultures, communities, and reconciliation in Canada. In his debut collection of stories, observations, and thoughts about Winnipeg, the place he calls "ground zero" of Canada's future, read about the complex history and contributions of this place alongside the radical solutions to injustice and violence found here, presenting solutions for a country that has forgotten principles of treaty and inclusivity. It is here, in the place where Canada began—where the land, water, people, and animals meet— that a path "from the centre" is happening for all to see.At a crucial and fragile moment in Canada's long history with Indigenous peoples, one of our most essential writers begins at the centre, capturing a web spanning centuries of community, art, and resistance. Based on years' worth of columns, Niigaan Sinclair delivers a defining essay collection on the resilience of Indigenous peoples. Here, we meet the creators, leaders, and everyday people preserving the beauty of their heritage one day at a time. But we also meet the ugliest side of colonialism, the Indian Act, and the communities who suffer most from its atrocities. Sinclair uses the story of Winnipeg to illuminate the reality of Indigenous life all over what is called Canada. This is a book that demands change and celebrates those fighting for it, that reminds us of what must be reconciled and holds accountable those who must do the work. It's a book that reminds us of the power that comes from loving a place, even as that place is violently taken away from you, and the magic of fighting your way back to it.