Good Mom on Paper is a collection of 20 essays from writers including Heather O'Neill, Lee Maracle, Jael Richardson, Alison Pick and more. Good Mom on Paper is a book edited by by Stacey May Fowles, middle, and Jen Sookfong Lee, right. All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay Crewe won the Jim Connors Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction for The Spoon Stealer, which was also on the Canada Reads 2022 longlist. Lesley Crewe is a Nova Scotia columnist, screenwriter and author of several novels, including Beholden, Mary, Mary, Amazing Grace, Chloe Sparrow, Kin, The Spoon Stealer and Relative Happiness, which has been adapted into a feature film. Nosy Parker follows Audrey from childhood to adolescence, where she eventually discovers the truth about her mother.įamily memories inspired Lesley Crewe's novel The Spoon Stealer, which is on the Canada Reads 2022 longlist Audrey pays attention to every detail, but only one mystery really matters to her: Audrey wants to know who her mother was, how she died, and why her father won't talk about it. Set in Montreal during the 1967 Expo, the nosy Audrey Parker and her dad have just moved to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. Her books include Islands of Decolonial Love, This Accident of Being Lost, As We Have Always Doneand Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies. Her work often centres on the experiences of Indigenous Canadians. Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, activist, musician, artist, author and member of Alderville First Nation. Her debut book, Policing Black Lives, traced the underreported modern and historical realities of anti-Blackness within a Canadian context. Maynard's writing and work focus on documenting racist and gender-based state violence. Maynard is a Montreal-based Black feminist writer, activist and educator. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Indigenous freedom and creating change Why Robyn Maynard wrote a book exposing the underreported history of racial injustice in Canada Rooted in Black and Indigenous perspectives on race, gender and class, Rehearsals for Living is an epistolary dialogue about the world we live in and a need for change. Authors Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson began writing each other letters - a gesture sparked by a desire for kinship and connection during a trying time. The concept behind the book Rehearsals for Living formed during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. Rehearsals for Living is a book by Robyn Maynard, left, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

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