Literary Scout

Category: Canadian Fiction

Blaze

Emma Donoghue
1/5 stars

Blaze is a post-apocalyptic animal novel told entirely from the point of view of a young female pigeon. Its setting is a ruined future New York, though the pigeons never call it that. Manhattan is “the island of towers,” Central Park is “the great green rectangle,” cars and boats are “rusties,” humans are “talls,” and […]

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters (2023)

The novel opens with a prologue featuring a dying 57-year-old Joe, who is grappling with regrets and attempting to reconcile with his past. His sister Mae informs him that someone is there to see him. The primary narrative then shifts to the 1960s, focusing on an Indigenous family from Nova Scotia who work as berry […]