Books tagged: Psychological
After You've Gone
By Lori Hahnel
After You've Gone is the story of two generations of musicians, a jazz grandmother and a punk granddaughter, who each struggle with balancing life, love, and art in their respective eras. The novel opens in 2007 with Elsa Taggart and her ex-husband watching their son's convocation ... Read more
Against the Wind
By Madeleine Gagnon
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott
From the moment he takes drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from violent sexual assault, Joseph finds himself retreating into an increasingly abstract world where he must confront what he calls his “visions.” In reaction to his indistinct trauma, Joseph sets out ... Read more
Against The Wind
By Madeleine Gagnon & Howard Scott
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff
From the moment he takes drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from violent sexual assault, Joseph finds himself retreating into an increasingly abstract world where he must confront what he calls his “visions. ” In reaction to his indistinct trauma, Joseph sets out ... Read more
Agatha
By Anne Cathrine Bomann
Translated by Caroline Waight
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A psychiatrist is counting down towards his upcoming retirement. He lives alone in his childhood home and has neither friends nor family.
Often, he resorts to drawing bird caricatures of his patients instead of taking notes. His social life consists ... Read more
And the Birds Rained Down
By Jocelyne Saucier
Translated by Rhonda Mullins
A CBC Canada Reads 2015 Selection! Finalist for the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English Translation Deep in a Northern Ontario forest live Tom and Charlie, two octogenarians determined to live out the rest of their lives on their own terms: free of all ... Read more
Blue Field
By Elise Levine
When her friend Jane dies while exploring an underwater cave with her husband Rand, Marilyn takes up diving again, to honour—and outdo—her late friend. Marilyn drags Rand with her as she increasingly pushes herself far past her limits and skill level, endangering them both ... Read more
Chameleon (Days)
By Dean Serravalle
What happens when the narrator is removed from a story? When the author's real life is fictionalized instead, so that creator and creation relate on the same existential ground with no middleman? Chameleon (Days) is such an experiment in storytelling, a literary novel that explores ... Read more