What is particularly enjoyable about this book is the author’s ability to flesh out robust and endearing characters. These personalities are easy and inviting, like homemade bread and Saskatoon berry jam. One can’t help but fall in love with Massey, with Adam, and, of course, with George.

Sleepers and Ties is a charming and soul-satisfying book. It was like coming home every time I lifted the bookmark to resume reading. A wonderful achievement and a delightfully comforting novel.

The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life is gentle and sombre and beautiful. At once lyrical and acute, each short chapter offers a glimpse into the protagonist’s quiet life, almost like a meditation. Perhaps this is how the author intended this book to be read? A sip at a time, chapter by chapter, letting each portion slowly warm you from the inside out.

Wow. Let me say again—WOW! Alyssa York is a powerful writer. Her latest book, Far Cry, published by Random House Canada, is nothing short of exquisite. The prose is dense, the characters flawed and fierce, while the plot gently intoxicates, drawing the reader ever deeper. Weeks later, after reading the final chapter, I still can’t shake the ending. Be prepared for these characters to stay with you.

We Measure the Earth with our Bodies is Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel—and what a debut it is! The author invites the reader into a multi-generational migration experience, exploring the interconnectedness of family over space and time while considering the meaning of home when one is physically separated from the land of their ancestors.

Tracking the Caribou Queen is a beautifully written memoir about growing up in Canada’s North. As a young girl, author Margaret MacPherson and her family move to Yellowknife, where her father was a school administrator and her mother a nurse during the 1960s and ‘70s. The move is a culture shock for the family, but MacPherson quickly adjusts and grows up deeply attracted to the land, to Indigenous culture and traditions, and to the people of the NWT. Yet, just as deeply, she remains separate from it. Here, the author navigates through colonial legacies, systemic racism, as well as her own role and participation in those realities.