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Hold My Girl picked as 'The best Canadian fiction of 2023' by CBC Books 'Thoughtful, tense and affecting' Ashley Audrain '[A] tense, emotional story about racial identity, loss and betrayal' Daily Mail 'Fiction books to watch in 2023' This tense and emotional novel follows the fallout after two...

When you’re embarrassed to step out your own front door, is happiness even possible? Jennifer’s life is falling to pieces. She’s out of work. Her brother’s in a coma. Her mom just died. And despite stellar qualifications, every job interview ends in rejection. Also, she’s heavier than...

When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants, it amplifies her struggle to understand her place in the world as a person who is half-Black, half-white, and yet feels neither. Her mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada with her husband and their first-born child during the politically charged Jamaican Exodus in the 80s, only to realize they'd come to a place where Black men are viewed with suspicion. Years later, in the aftermath of her son's murder by the police, Evelyn's mother-in-law, Violet, moves in.