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• Angry Queer Somali Boy

  a Complicated Memoir

  Ali, Mohamed Abdulkarim, 1985-

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  Writing from a homeless shelter in downtown Toronto, Mohamed "Mo" Ali chronicles how he ended up there in this memoir of exile, addiction, and racism.

• Asylum

  a Novel

  Alexis, André, 1957-

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  Set in Ottawa during the Mulroney years, Asylum is Andre Alexis's sweeping, edged-in-satire, yet deeply serious tale of intertwined lives and fortunes, of politics and vain ambition, of the building of a magnificent prison, of human fallibility, of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Writers Matter

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  An anthology of African-Canadian writing, Black Writing Matters offers a cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle contemporary and pressing issues with beautiful, sometimes raw, prose.

• Brother

  Chariandy, David John, 1969-

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  An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Butter Honey Pig Bread

  Ekwuyasi, Francesca, 1990-

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  An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.

• Days by Moonlight

  Alexis, André, 1957-

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  Days by Moonlight is a Dantesque journey taken during the "hour of the wolf," that time of day when the sun is setting and the traveller can't tell the difference between dog and wolf. And it asks that perpetual question: how do we know the things…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dear Current Occupant

  a Memoir

  Knight, Chelene, 1981-

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  From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

• Dominoes at the Crossroads

  Stories

  Kellough, Kaie, 1975-,

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  Short stories taking place in Montreal, Paris, and the South American rainforest.

• Finding Edward

  Murray, Sheila (Documentary filmmaker),

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  A chance encounter on the streets of Toronto sends a Jamaican migrant on a path of discovery.

• Frying Plantain

  Stories

  Reid-Benta, Zalika, 1990-

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  An artful depiction of the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation Canadians and first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity and predominately white society.

• The Great Black North

  Contemporary African Canadian Poetry

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  Told through the intertwining tapestry of poetic forms found on the page and stage, The Great Black North presents some missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that help fit together a poetic picture of the Black Canadian experience.

• How She Read

  Gibson, Chantal

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  A collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination.

• In the Black

  My Life

  Jolly, B. Denham,

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  A remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudice

• Invisible Boy

  a Memoir of Self-discovery

  Mooney, Harrison

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  A memoir from a BC Vancouver Sun journalist who was born to a West African mother, and then adopted as a small boy and raised by a white evangelical family.

• I've Been Meaning to Tell You

  a Letter to My Daughter

  Chariandy, David John, 1969-

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  When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask "what happened?" David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race.

• Jade Is a Twisted Green

  a Novel

  Turton, Tanya

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  Jade Brown, a twenty-four-year-old first-generation Jamaican woman living in Toronto, must find a way to pick up the pieces and discover who she is following the mysterious death of her twin sister.

• Junie

  a Novel

  Knight, Chelene, 1981-

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  A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood.

• The Long Road Home

  on Blackness and Belonging

  Thompson, Debra (Debra E.),

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  In The Long Road Home, Thompson follows the roots of Black identities in North America and the routes taken by those who have crisscrossed the world’s longest undefended border in search of freedom and belonging.

• 'Membering

  Clarke, Austin, 1934-

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  In 'Membering, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist.

• Monoceros

  a Novel

  Mayr, Suzette

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  A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him.