You Told Us: Fave Canadian Reads from 2021-22

Usually on our birthdays we talk about our favourite reads, but this year, we turned it over to you, our readers. See what books ALU readers loved over the last year.

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  • Wan

    Wan

    By: Dawn Promislow
    $24.95

    Shortlisted for the 2023 Fred Kerner Book Award

    A Miramichi Reader Best Fiction of 2022

    “Wan is a masterpiece. This beautiful, painterly, sublime, and sonically exquisite novel by Dawn Promislow is a work of utter genius.” – Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of All the Broken Things

    Narrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, Wan is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel.

    Written in gorgeous and spare prose, this exquisite debut novel grapples with questions of complicity and guilt, of privilege, and of the immeasurable value of art and of life.

  • Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls

    Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls

    By: Daniel Scott Tysdal
    $20.00

    In this heart-twisting collection, Tysdal delves deep into the human experience. Throughout, Tysdal looks unflinchingly at the darkness of society, at suicide, at internet trolls, at violence, but the powerful empathy of his writing brings significance to even the most tragic moments. These stories have intricate and unexpected plots, filmic descriptions and crisp writing. These stories will break the reader’s heart and then put it back together again filled with compassion for these lost souls.