IN MAY we showered you with four books by first-time novelists — Joanne Proulx, Catherine Kidd, Andrew Wedderburn and Andy Brown. This holiday season take a detour from the Canadian literary giants and try someone new!
FAB FIRST TIMES
Get in the head of a small town slacker, in Joanne Proulx's Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet, take a lesson on gutting an animal in Catherine Kidd's Missing the Ark, or experience a meat-packing Alberta town through a 10-year-old boy on a sugar high in Andrew Wedderburn's The Milk Chicken Bomb. While Atwood, Ondaatje, and Munroe are all experienced pros, you'll never forget the first time (writers, that is). >by Ron Nurwisah >fiction
Genetically predisposed toward malignant moles, The Mole Chronicles's unnamed narrator and his sister, Lesley, are warned by their dermatologist to be cautious âe" of the sun, of changing parameters âe" and the first half of Andy Brown's debut novel plots the narratorâe(TM)s vigilant effort to live a cautious life, while witnessing and recounting myriad events that warn of the dangers involved in living. >by Rebecca Silver Slayter >fiction
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