By Yolanda T. Marshall
A Totally different Hurricane
Written by H. Nigel Thomas
“Rising up in neighbouring villages on the tiny island nation of St Vincent, teenage finest buddies Gordon and Allen are secret lovers till they’re compelled aside by their group’s conventional expectations and their worry of how others will react. They every full their college research overseas, encountering worlds with much less hostility towards LGBTQ+ folks. Tempted to remain, each males finally return dwelling, hiding who they’re. Their secret lives come on the expense of others, and Gordon’s spouse, Maureen, is the primary to be irreparably harmed. She has confided her secrets and techniques to an accusatory journal, and it’s now as much as Gordon to maintain it from the native media and the unforgiving eyes of the authorities. If the reality is revealed, he and Allan would be the subsequent victims.” Dundurn Press, 2025.
Remaindered Folks & Different Tales
Written by Pratap Reddy.
“The creator’s first assortment, Climate Allowing & Different Tales, was centred on the predicament of recent immigrants dealing with the challenges they face instantly upon arrival in Canada. On this new assortment, the main focus is on the opposite facet of immigration, exploring the often-neglected facets: the plight of empty nesters left behind in India, mother and father compelled to immigrate with their grownup kids, about immigrants returning to their dwelling nation for good or for vacation, of individuals aspiring emigrate however chucking up the sponge. Regardless of the surrounding circumstances, all of the tales are about folks on the transfer who typically don’t know the place they’re headed.” – Guernica Editions, 2025.
We, the Kindling
Written by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek.
“As this spare and luminous novel begins, we meet Miriam, Helen and Maggie—three buddies who survived seize by the Lord’s Resistance Military in northern Uganda years in the past after they had been faculty kids. Now, as the ladies go about their new lives within the metropolis, buying, caring for his or her kids, planning and excited about the longer term, we perceive how deeply their previous haunts the current. In swish but unflinching prose, Otoniya Okot Bitek weaves vivid folks tales with taut realism, revealing flashes of life earlier than the warfare that ravaged Uganda, unspooling the horrible occasions that led to abductions of youngsters from supposedly protected colleges, and tracing perilous journeys dwelling once more. Going through countless treks throughout the ravaged countryside and thru slender mountain passes, gun battles and fixed brutality, many ladies didn’t survive. Those that did make it again dwelling, some carrying young children of their very own, bore the unstated weight of their experiences inside households and communities that usually wished to neglect and transfer on.
In We, the Kindling, Okot Bitek insistently refuses to show away or to spectacularize tragedy, shaping a refrain of girls’s voices right into a hauntingly stunning novel, suffused with care and humanity.” – Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2025.
Planting a Music
Written by Krishana Johnson-James.
“Journey loves taking part in the piano however is scared to play in entrance of others. She is overwhelmed with doubt and worry when requested to accompany the kids’s choir at a expertise present. Will Journey discover the braveness to play earlier than the gang? This story is about constructing self-confidence, optimistic self-talk, and growing a progress mindset.” – Independently Revealed, 2024.
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