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Author: Makeda Silvera
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Apr 1995
Strong, Troubled, Optimistic
by Hazelle Palmer
For these three poets writing is an instrument to deconstruct and challenge the status quo - to accuse Canadian society of racism, sexism, and classism, and to substantiate those accusations with examples drawn from the core of their communities. Read more...
| May 2002
Drama Jamaican-Style
by Irene D'Souza
Molly Galloway, the sleek heroine and narrator of this debut novel by the widely recognized editor and co-founder of Sister Vernon Press, is a horticulturist, living in Toronto, having arrived from Jamaica in 1971. Makeda Silvera's elegiac story about the disruption of emigrant families and the durability of childhood memories is sure to garner her attention as a writer first and foremost. Read more...
| JunJul 2002
 | The Divine Economy of Salvation
by Priscila Uppal
Doubleday
405 pages $32.95 cloth
ISBN: 0385658044
|  | Heave
by Christy Ann Conlin
Doubleday Canada
322 pages $29.95 paper
ISBN: 0385658079
|  | Spelling Mississippi
by Marnie Woodrow
Knopf Canada
386 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0676974317
| |  | Rush Home Road
by Lori Lansens
Knopf Canada
547 pages $34.95 paper
ISBN: 0676974503
|  | Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson
Knopf Canada
291 pages $34.95 cloth
ISBN: 0676974791
|  | The Heart Does Not Bend
by Makeda Silvera
Random House Canada
264 pages $32.95 cloth
ISBN: 0679311343
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First Novels
by W.P Kinsella
The first book I read for the 2002 season, Crow Lake, by Mary Lawson, (Knopf Canada, 294pages, ISBN: 0676974791), is a spellbinding story and likely to be collecting accolades at the end of the year. The bitter land and climate of Northern Ontario are like characters in this story of four orphaned children struggling to stay together as a family. Read more...
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