Opening Ceremony by Laura Marie Marciano Metatron Press 64 pages $18 Laura Marie Marciano’s second poetic memoir, Opening Ceremony, will hit uncomfortably close to home for many aging Millennials—and Marciano does not hold back. Composed with the same candor and...
Toxemia by Christine McNair Book*hug Press 176 pages $23 Christine McNair’s memoir, Toxemia, is a deeply personal account of her experiences with pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening pregnancy condition marked by high blood pressure, piercing headaches, double vision,...
I Hate Parties by Jes Battis Nightwood Editions 102 pages $20 Jes Battis’s I Hate Parties is a nostalgic poetry collection that chronicles adolescence in the ‘80s and ‘90s—social anxiety and Discmans included—and is peppered with musings from an adult navigating the...
All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H. Invisible Publishing 368 pages $24 “Since the promise of eternal life was no longer on the horizon, I sought, instead, to experience the full expression of my own self-destruction. Instead of aiming for Heaven, I was now hurtling...
Mary and the Rabbit Dream by Noémi Kiss-Deáki Coach House Books 232 pages $25 A good historian understands that history is, at its core, a narrative—one usually written by those in power. Noémi Kiss-Deáki is one such historian. Mary and the Rabbit Dream, Kiss-Deáki’s...
Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele Invisible Publishing 272 pages $16.95 “The Port Peter peaches lure tourists,” begins Sydney Hegele’s debut novel, Bird Suit, and their hypnotic writing lures readers into this sickly-sweet saga just as effectively. Nestled on the shores of...
Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber Book*hug Press 146 pages $23 Adrienne Gruber’s memoir-in-essays cracks open the institution of motherhood with a deeply personal exploration of her own experience. Each of the collection’s...
I Will Get Up Off Of by Simina Banu Coach House Books 72 pages $24 Following her award-winning debut poetry collection POP, Montreal-based poet Simina Banu’s signature blend of pop culture, illustration, and poignant portrayal of life’s struggles continues in I Will...
Good Want by Domenica Martinello Coach House Books 109 pages $24 Domenica Martinello’s Good Want lies in the chasms separating good from bad, speech from silence, and faith from disbelief, producing a meditative collection of poems that gets to the core of desire as a...
Splinter & Shard: Stories by Lulu Keating ECW Press 192 pages $25 Splinter & Shard: Stories by Canadian author and award-winning TV and film director, Lulu Keating, is her debut collection of short stories about the human experience, in which she translates...