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This year’s fall fiction lineup is particularly strong, especially from the Canadian contingent of writers, including buzzworthy books from local authors.
Learned By Heart
By Emma Donoghue
HarperCollins, Aug. 29
The author of Room and The Wonder returns with a novel, based on a true story, of two girls who fall deeply in love at a 19th-century boarding school.
Emma Donoghue will be at McNally Robinson Booksellers’ Grant Park location to launch Learned By Heart on Monday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.
Away From the Dead
By David Bergen
Goose Lane, Sept. 5
Set in early-20th century Ukraine during the Russian Revolution of the early 20th century, the Winnipeg-based Giller-winning author’s novel follows characters connected through family, loyalty and love.
David Bergen launches Away From the Dead on Thursday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
The Circle
By Katherena Vermette
Penguin Canada, Sept. 5
The third and final book in Vermette’s trilogy (following The Break and The Strangers) offers a plethora of Métis voices, victims and accused perpetrators, who account for a crime that has transformed their lives.
Do You Remember Being Born?
By Sean Michaels
Random House, Sept. 5
Marian, an esteemed 75-year-old poet mulling the plight of her middle-aged son, visits a powerful Silicon Valley company to “collaborate” with Charlotte, a poetry bot.
Michaels (the Giller-winning author of Us Conductors) traces Marian and Charlotte’s fraught relationship.
Everything There Is
By M.G. Vassanji
Doubleday Canada, Sept. 5
The two-time Giller winner is back with a book about an esteemed London physicist in an arranged marriage who falls in love with a graduate student in Massachussetts.
Meanwhile, tensions flare in his birth country of Pakistan as he refuses to contribute to the country’s nuclear project.
Roaming
By Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Drawn & Quarterly, Sept. 12
The award-winning duo behind the graphic novel This One Summer reconvene with a story of a trip to bustling New York in 2009 and a queer relationship that blossoms there, throwing the dynamic between casual acquaintances off balance.
Island Falls
By Owen Toews
ARP Books, Sept. 15
The debut allegorical novella by Winnipeg’s Toews (Stolen City) explores themes of capitalism and colonialism as a student’s peculiar friend ruminates on the mill town he grew up in, and the workers’ tough conditions and inequity they suffer through.
Wild Hope
By Joan Thomas
HarperCollins, Sept. 19
The award-winning Winnipeg author (Five Wives) returns with a novel that follows Isla and Jake, an estranged couple (a chef and an artist, respectively) and Reg, a bottled-water baron.
When Jake goes missing, all signs point to Reg as being involved.
Joan Thomas launches Wild Hope in Winnipeg on Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
And Then She Fell
By Alicia Elliott
Doubleday, Sept. 26
The latest novel by the Mohawk author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground follows a new mother in Toronto who begins to think something is wrong with her as she copes with her baby and loss of her own mother.
Alicia Elliott launches And Then She Fell on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
The Adversary
By Michael Crummey
Knopf, Sept. 26
The author of The Innocents, Sweetland and more delivers the story of a wedding gone awry in northern Newfoundland, and the vendettas and violence entangled in a conflict between rival entrepreneurs.
Michael Crummey launches The Adversary on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Moon of the Turning Leaves
By Waubgeshig Rice
Random House, Oct. 10
The sequel to Rice’s 2018 novel Moon of the Crusted Snow brings readers back to the remote northern Ontario community where Evan Whitesky has struggled to help keep his community afloat; he leads a scouting party with his daughter to seek new beginnings.
Waubgeshig Rice launches Moon of the Turning Leaves on Friday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location.
Held
By Anne Michaels
McClelland & Stewart, Nov. 14
The Fugitive Pieces author offers a rumination on desire of all kinds — including the desire to understand — set across four generations haunted by the past, by visions of ghosts and more.
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