The Marrow Thievesby Cherie Dimaline is the #1 Canadian kids book this week. True Reconciliation by Jody Wilson-RaybouldĬherie Dimaline is the author of The Marrow Thieves.21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act by Bob Joseph.Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard.See the full Canadian nonfiction list below. Kate Beaton's affecting Ducks dives into the lonely life of labour in Alberta's oilsands With the goal of paying off her student loans, Beaton leaves her tight-knit seaside Nova Scotia community and heads west, where she encounters harsh realities, including the everyday trauma that no one discusses.ĭucks won Canada Reads 2023, it was championed by J eopardy! star Mattea Roach. (Morgan Murray, Drawn & Quarterly)ĭucks by Kate Beaton is the #1 Canadian nonfiction book this week.ĭucks is an autobiographical graphic novel that recounts author Kate Beaton's time spent working in the Alberta oil sands. The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayrĭucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is a book by Kate Beaton.Old Babes in the Woods by Margaret Atwood.See the full Canadian fiction list below. Miriam Toews on the war she didn't know she was winning.Women Talking was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction and was a finalist for the 2019 Trillium Book Award.

Women Talking is inspired by the real-life case in the 2000s, when women in a Bolivian Mennonite community began whispering that they were waking up groggy, in pain, feeling like they had been sexually molested.

Why? They have 48 hours to make a decision that will impact every woman and child in their community. In Miriam Toews's powerful novel, eight Mennonite women come together to talk.

Women Talking by Miriam Toews is the #1 Canadian fiction book this week. Miriam Toews is the author of Women Talking.

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