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
All Is Well
By Katherine Walker
Christine Wright is having a bad day. She’s an ex-special forces soldier and a recovering alcoholic, and now her new career as a church minister has started off with the worst kind of bang. Could it be her reflexes are a little too twitchy for this job?From the opening page, ... Read more
All the World's a Wonder
By Melia McClure
A playwright with a split personality, an actress desperate to get to the top, a doctor haunted by a lost love. Three people cross time and space to meet through the playwright's bizarre creative process: to create, she must become her characters; to tell her tragic story, the ... Read more
Almost Visible
By Michelle Sinclair
Tess has just moved to Montreal from Nova Scotia, and seeks to lose herself by involving herself in the lives of others. She befriends an older man while delivering meals to the elderly. Her interest in his past veers into obsession after furtively going through his photos and ... 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