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In Praise of Anita Rau Badami by Caitlin Fehir
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"Red Leaves", a short story by Can Xue
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Tess Gallagher: Lying Next to the Knife by Caroline McElwee
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Reviews
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THE SLEEPWALKER
Margarita Karapanou
Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
As the novel opens God is pondering his creation of mankind and feeling that he has made an error. "For the first time he felt sad, and deeply bored. He saw that his people were small and ridiculous, and he was gripped by an awful rage …
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Reviewed by Amanda Meale
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THE HUNTER
Julia Leigh
The last known thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) was captured in Tasmania in 1933 and spent its final three years in Hobart Zoo before it died of exposure after being locked out of its shelter one very cold night. However, sightings of this incredible creature have been reported …
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Reviewed by Judy Lim
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GILLESPIE AND I
Jane Harris
Gillespie and I is a book that refuses to be easily categorized. Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery, and part Victorian Gothic, Harris's second novel joins the ranks of…
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Reviewed by Deborah Montouri
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TELL IT TO THE TREES
Anita Rau Badami
Tell it to the Trees opens with the death of Anu, a single woman who rents the "back house" of the Dharma family. It is winter, a deep cold winter in northern British Columbia, and Anu is found frozen…
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Reviewed by Caitlin Fehir
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IN THEIR FATHER'S COUNTRY
Anne-Marie Drosso
'What's a life?' Claire Sahli wondered. The answer seemed obvious to her: 'if you're young, it's the future; not so young, it's the present; old, it's the past; and very old, it's the deaths of all those who mattered in your life.' As she now saw it, that's what a life seemed to be. A succession of deaths, one after the other.
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Reviewed by Jana Herlander
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