9 buzzy new books for fall
November 2016 fall books
The Mothers, Brit Bennett, $35
High school senior Nadia is grief stricken by her mother’s suicide and finds comfort in the local pastor’s son. The consequences reverberate through their Southern California town.
Wenjack by Joseph Boyden, $12
In 1966, a 12-year-old Ojibwa boy died of hunger trying to escape a residential school near Kenora, Ont. Fifty years later, Boyden captures Chanie “Charlie” Wenjack’s last hours in an intimate new novella. Boyden’s friend Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie is also releasing an album to mark the anniversary.
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax, $34
Love dropping a needle on vinyl or fondling the pages of a real book? You’re not alone. A keen trend watcher, Sax traces the resurgence of all things tangible and old-timey.
Fearless as Possible by Denise Donlon, $32
The Broadcasting Hall of Famer dishes on being a boss in the Canadian music industry. Keith Richards and Conrad Black make cameos.
Guy by Jowita Bydlowska, $20
The memoirist behind Drunk Mom makes her fiction debut with a politically incorrect romance narrated by a womanizer whose latent homophobia, racism and misogyny bubble to the bro-y surface when he falls in love.
Canada by Mike Myers, $40
Part personal history, part Heritage Minute, the new coffee-table book from the man behind Austin Powers is an ode to the country that shaped his comedy. (Canadian Tire money, Pierre Trudeau and Girl Guide cookies all get nods.)
Hungry Heart by Jennifer Weiner, $35
The unapologetic champion of chick lit (and Jonathan Franzen critic) ventures into non-fiction with a collection of essays on dieting, money, mean girls and motherhood.
Swing Time by Zadie Smith, $34
Two mixed-race girls, both raised in public housing in 1980s London, form a competitive friendship that sprawls into the present day, West Africa and the glossy world of pop stardom.
Walk Through Walls by Marina Abramovic, $37 The mother of performance art has cut herself, slammed into walls and sat motionless for weeks at a time. Her candid new memoir reveals the vulnerability and strength it takes to turn her body into art.
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