Soon, her daily Instagram comic – a feminist satire about a post-apocalyptic world in which all the men have disappeared – had attracted more than 250,000 followers. – Ryan PorterĪminder Dhaliwal’s 2018 comics collection, Woman World, began as a personal distraction after the artist, who was born in Brampton, Ontario, learned that her animated pilot with Nickelodeon wasn’t going to be picked up. In Hana Khan Carries On, a waitress with ambitions to make it in radio falls for the owner of a rival halal restaurant in a novel Jalaluddin compares to the Nora Ephron romance You’ve Got Mail. In Heron’s Accidentally Engaged, Reena pretends to be in a relationship with her neighbour Nadim so they can win a couples’ bake-off, despite her parents’ machinations to make the partnership cook in more than just the kitchen. They return this season with feel-good culinary-themed follow-ups in which the only things more delicious than the food are the flirtations. Toronto authors Farah Heron and Uzma Jalaluddin both had well-received debuts in the romantic-comedy category, dropping the tropes of the romance genre into a modern Muslim setting. In the brand-new novella Charity, Fraser tells the story of Denise, whose life is tossed into upheaval when her husband’s ex-wife (the biological mother of Denise’s stepdaughter) abruptly returns and wants to reinsert herself into her old family’s lives. The massive retrospective volume Damages features stories selected from throughout Fraser’s career, beginning with the 1982 collection Taking Cover. With luck, all that will change in spring, when Biblioasis releases not one but two editions of the author’s work. Vancouver writer Keath Fraser is one of this country’s most robust and individual literary voices though despite a career that includes winning the Chapters/ Books in Canada First Novel Award for 1995’s Popular Anatomy and being nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for the story collection Foreign Affairs a decade earlier, he is generally consigned to cult status at best in Canada.
Escape from the real world with the season’s most provocative novels, short stories, and poetry
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