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Notes from a Children’s Librarian: Satisfying Endings
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Introducing the 49th Shelf Summer Books List: Part 2
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Inclusive Learning, Diverse Books: Introducing Top Grade 2021
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Most Anticipated: Our Fall 2021 Nonfiction Preview
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CanLit Yearning
"At the heart of my novella and in each book on this CanLit list is a sense of desire or a yearning (for belonging, iden …
The Chat with Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo
This week we’re in conversation with political trailblazer Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo, whose memoir, The Queer Evangelist, …
Most Anticipated: Our 2021 Fall Fiction Preview
With new books by Miriam Toews, Dawn Dumont, Douglas Coupland, Marie-Renee Lavoie, Omar El Akkad, Zoe Whittall, Trudy Mo …
Speculative Fiction: Vast and Thrilling
"As a reader and a lightly superstitious human, I can’t deny the pull of the unusual, the not-quite-real. I love books …
Writing with Four Hands
"That’s what the Travels series is all about: sending a resourceful, observant, unafraid (well, sometimes a little afr …
The Chat with GG's Literature Award Winner Anne Carson
“Norma Jeane Baker of Troy leverages a millennia-old story of beauty and war to animate a history of the male gaze and …
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Giller Prize 2018 Special Series: The Chat with Thea Lim
The 2018 Giller Prize will be announced November 19, and we're pleased to continue our conversations with the finalists and our contest (to the left) where you can enter for a chance to win the shortlist! Today we’re in conversation with Thea Lim, author of An Ocean of Minutes.
The 2018 Giller jury says of the novel,
"America is in the midst of a deadly flu pandemic. In order to afford medical treatment for her husband, a young woman agrees to travel through time. They agree to meet in the future. What is five minutes for her is twelve years for him. And, in the briefest of moments, they have become irreconcilable strangers. In An Ocean of Minutes, debut novelist Thea Lim asks the reader to confront contemporary issues—social class, immigration, citizenship, corporate power, poverty, and the all too familiar, love and loss. The novel is beautifully written and guides us through a plot that moves backwards and forward—yet, never lets us go.”
Thea Lim’s writing has been published by the Southampton Review, The Guardian, Salon, the Millions, Bi …
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Giller Prize 2018 Special Series: The Chat with Thea Lim
The 2018 Giller Prize will be announced November 19, and we're pleased to continue our conversations with the finalists and our contest (to the left) where you can enter for a chance to win the shortlist! Today we’re in conversation with Thea Lim, author of An Ocean of Minutes.
The 2018 Giller jury says of the novel,
"America is in the midst of a deadly flu pandemic. In order to afford medical treatment for her husband, a young woman agrees to travel through time. They agree to meet in the future. What is five minutes for her is twelve years for him. And, in the briefest of moments, they have become irreconcilable strangers. In An Ocean of Minutes, debut novelist Thea Lim asks the reader to confront contemporary issues—social class, immigration, citizenship, corporate power, poverty, and the all too familiar, love and loss. The novel is beautifully written and guides us through a plot that moves backwards and forward—yet, never lets us go.”
Thea Lim’s writing has been published by the Southampton Review, The Guardian, Salon, the Millions, Bi …
