Cereus Blooms at Night, by Shani Mootoo

More often that not, I pick the next book I’ll read on a whim, which generally works out pretty well. As I started Cereus Blooms at Night, I felt that I’d made the wrong decision, yet it’s a testament to the power of this formidable book that I quickly changed my mind. Content wise, it’s [...]

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Fruit, by Brian Francis

I think the world would be a lot better off if we all had truth-telling nipples. Sure, there’d probably be a national masking-tape shortage, but we’d get by with the help of those two sage advisers. But if we can’t all have talking nipples, the next best thing is to read a unflinchingly honest book [...]

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A History of Forgetting, by Caroline Adderson

“The first thing she learned working at Vitae was about history: that the present rests upon layers of the past, but is a stratum so unstable, so shot with fault lines, that now and then the then rears up and knocks down the now.”
Often, when I’m choosing a book to read, I stand in front [...]

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