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Layaway Child
Magnificent stories about Caribbean immigrants navigating the emotional terrain of girlhood, displacement, longing, and identity across continents.
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As the Earth Dreams
A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and joy.
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Everything Is Fine Here
A beguiling coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people.
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Innie Shadows
A taut and unsparing novel about a community plagued by violence, drugs, corruption, and prejudice—but where love and justice prevail.
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The Hand of Iman
In this award-winning debut novel, dreaming is a luxury that few can afford. And yet, however inadvisedly, Iman dreams.
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What I Mean to Say
The 2024 Massey Lectures will be delivered by Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning author Ian Williams.
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The Creation of Half-Broken People
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University’s Windham–Campbell Prize
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A CBC Best Book of 2025 The much-anticipated debut collection from the multi-talented Terese Mason Pierre.
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A unique guided journal designed to empower writers at every stage of their careers, with nurturing guidance for the successful launch of their books.
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Who Will Bury You?
Intimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the people they call their own.
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Poetry of the lightest touch for the heftiest matters … Undi has proven herself an exquisite and needful diarist of the inextricability of Black being from love, from freedom, from the tangled, hurtful web of this modern life … A queerly marvelous debut!\" — \u003cstrong\u003eCanisia Lubrin, author of \u003cem\u003eCode Noir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"Katherena Vermette, author of The Break","OtherText_Accolades_1":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bound together and each piece so very much its own, this collection marvels from masterful found poems to sprinkles of pure love and humour. Undi electrifies, is at once vulnerable and completely indestructible. PS: That first Winnipeg poem has got to be our new hometown anthem.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eKatherena Vermette, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Break\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Canisia Lubrin, author of Code Noir","OtherText_Accolades_2":"\u003cp\u003e\"With searing wit, a tender hand, and a bird’s eye, \u003cem\u003eScientific Marvel\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a smirk behind each word as alluring as it is intelligent. Melding the personal and the political, Undi’s poems understand Winnipeg streets as well as they know Supreme Court jurisprudence. 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Scientific Marvel
Marked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Her younger brother has died suddenly, and Akúa hopes to reconnect with her estranged older sister, Tamika. Over three fateful weeks, the sisters visit significant places from their childhood where Akúa spreads her brother’s ashes. But time spent with Tamika only seems to make apparent how different they are and how alone Akúa feels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen Akúa meets Jayda, a brash stripper who reveals a different side of Kingston. As the two women grow closer, Akúa is forced to confront the difficult reality of being gay in a deeply religious family, and what it means to be a gay woman in Jamaica. 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I longed for nothing more than for Akúa, the passionate, opinionated heroine, to safely navigate the vicissitudes of loss and sisterhood. A stunning debut.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eMargot Livesey, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Boy in the Field\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_2_Auth":"Angie Cruz, author of How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water","OtherText_Accolades_3":"\u003cp\u003e\"Christina Cooke’s \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing, touching, and often funny meditation on family fault lines drawn by migration, homophobia, cultural difference, and sibling order, from a talented new writer among us.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eEmily Raboteau, author of \u003cem\u003eSearching for Zion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_3_Auth":"Emily Raboteau, author of Searching for Zion","OtherText_Accolades_4":"\u003cp\u003e\"Peppered with music, sensuality, and unflinching emotion, \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e completely immersed me in Akúa’s fraught homecoming journey through the heat and the heart of Kingston. Christina Cooke poses thrillingly nuanced, provocative questions about what it means to feel at home, what we owe to our families, and how to guard the boundaries of the self while navigating it all. A gorgeous debut!\" — \u003cstrong\u003eDawnie Walton, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Final Revival of Opal \u0026 Nev\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_4_Auth":"Dawnie Walton, author of The Final Revival of Opal \u0026 Nev","OtherText_Accolades_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"A luminous tale of a latter-day Antigone who navigates grief, love, death, sex, violence, language, queerness, race, and three countries with courage, joy, and a tender heart.\u003cem\u003e Broughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is an instant classic and Christina Cooke brings beauty and truth to every page.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eStacey D'Erasmo, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Complicities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_5_Auth":"Stacey D'Erasmo, author of The Complicities","OtherText_Accolades_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"Christina Cooke’s \u003cem\u003eBroughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is a fiery debut novel that breaks new ground. 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Christina Cooke weaves a tale of personal revelation and desire, spun from a language that is agile, vibrant, and expert in its registers.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eWayde Compton, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Outer Harbour \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Road: A Fable of Migration\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_7_Auth":"Naomi Jackson, author of The Star Side of Bird Hill","OtherText_Accolades_8":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Broughtupsy\u003c\/em\u003e is the work of a writer of immense heart. Cooke’s sharp imagination grows the more you read this novel, which by turns, brims with careful, sensitive storytelling. This debut promises, delivers, and delights.\" — \u003cstrong\u003eCanisia Lubrin, author of \u003cem\u003eCode Noir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Accolades_8_Auth":"Wayde Compton, author of The Outer Harbour and The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eChristina Cooke is one of the winners of this year’s Writers’ Trust McClelland \u0026 Stewart Journey Prize. She holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 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It’s a dizzying, compelling effect, and one which Cooke achieves with a deceptive ease … A powerful account of an attempt to find a place, both in the physical world, and deep within the self.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e\"The story builds to a fierce, then sweetly redemptive, climax. The voice of innocence, the violence, and the sibling dynamics of Cooke’s debut recall Justin Torres’ \u003cem\u003eWe the Animals \u003c\/em\u003e(2011), also a queer coming-of-age story—but this blend of those elements is as unique as a thumbprint. Vivid, emotionally intense, and unafraid of the dark.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\"A moving coming-of-age story.\" — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_7":"\u003cp\u003e“This debut novel delivers an atmospheric story . . . 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Broughtupsy
Broughtupsy gives intersectionality a face, name, and head full of braids in this brilliant exploration of family, migration, queerness, and love.
