A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien.

James, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement in Northern Alberta, has settled into a comfortable middle-class life in Kitsilano, a trendy neighbourhood of Vancouver. He is living the life he had once dreamed of—travel, a charming

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In 1930, a school principal is suspected of raping a student. Seven years later, on the other side of the country, a girl picking wild cherries meets a violent end. Connecting the two mysteries is the narrator's charismatic aunt, an intuitive teacher named Connie Flood. Anne Flood pieces together her aunt's lifelong attachment to her former student Michael Graves, and her obsession with Parley Burns, the inscrutable principal. As the novel moves deeper...

From Giller Prize winner and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. When his only son gets in trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival faces the limits of his connections with wealth and is forced to send him away. In the loneliness that follows, Percival finds solace in Jacqueline and Lain Jai, a son born to them on the eve of the...

After a difficult five years, at age forty-three, Nina Morgan Clarke's time has finally arrived. With an ex-husband relocated across the country, her father bouncing back after the loss of his beloved wife, and her daughter, Xandra, thriving at boarding school, Nina is stepping into her dream job as a trifecta: a first-generation, Black female head of the storied Royal-Hawkins School. To mark the moment, Nina and her best friend, Marisol, take a long-overdue...