**A CBC and Globe and Mail Spring Book PickIn this debut novel, a young woman in the Rocky Mountains, separated from the ancestral rhythms of her home in Scotland, turns to ancient rituals to find solace and connection. With shades of Olga Tokarczuk, Ali Smith, and Rachel Cusk, Hovel is a book for those fascinated by female interiority.**Homesickness takes many forms. Alone in the mountains because of her husband’s job, occupied by little more than online ...

**A CBC and Globe and Mail Spring Book PickIn this debut novel, a young woman in the Rocky Mountains, separated from the ancestral rhythms of her home in Scotland, turns to ancient rituals to find solace and connection. With shades of Olga Tokarczuk, Ali Smith, and Rachel Cusk, Hovel is a book for those fascinated by female interiority.**Homesickness takes many forms. Alone in the mountains because of her husband’s job, occupied by little more than online ...

A young woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her immigrant childhood and confronts a haunting guilt, in this debut work by a brilliant new talent.Anne Kim is a lawyer in New York, her success built on forgetting the past. When her father dies, she returns to Edmonton for the funeral and is shocked to discover he was from North Korea and left his brother behind.As she reads the undelivered letters her father wrote to his brother about life in Ca...

From the bestselling author of The Boat People comes a page-turning moral drama about money, the dark side of philanthropy, and what happens when you try to change the world for all the wrong reasons.They have the best of intentions. What could go wrong?Claire Talbot is the publicist at Children of the World, an international aid charity. Morally burnt out after decades working in reputation management, Claire is relieved to finally use her PR skil...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A wondrous, deeply affecting portrait of the interlocking lives at an adult day care center in Southern California, depicting an often overlooked community with extraordinary wit and grace—a “triumphant”* novel by a major new literary voice hailed as a “groundbreaking debut novelist”**“[A] revelation that forces you to ask: How much do we overlook in people...

Known for her “delightful blend of historical fiction and suspense” (People), New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict, returns with a sweeping tale of a young woman who unearths the truth about a forgotten Pharaoh—rewriting both of their legacies forever."Bessie Carter and Suehyla El-Attar narrate this story of two remarkable women from different eras...Two skilled narrators bring to life two women who both rebel against the rules...