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From award-winning Brazilian author Eliana Alves Cruz comes a raw, propulsive novel-in-translation about a mother and daughter who work as live-in maids for the rich, and the tragedy they unwittingly bear witness to. Eunice works for a rich family in a building called The Golden Plate, in an...

Lori Lansens became one of Canada’s most sought after writers more than a year before her internationally heralded first book, Rush Home Road, would see publication in April 2002. So immediately and passionately was her novel embraced that it was already front-page arts news back in April 2001...

Here is groundbreaking, dazzling debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired writers. Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art—a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure is deceptively simple: it...