It is rare that a piece of writing is so intricate that every sentence must be read twice in order to understand something deeper, yet the themes jump out without hesitation. This is how I felt while reading The half-drowned by Trynne Delaney, a genre-bending novella which won the 2022 Quebec Writers Federation ‘First Book Prize.’ The story lands mostly within the speculative fiction category, combining magical realism and scientific fiction aspects to create a wholly new kind of narrative.The half-drowned takes place in a dystopian (yet not at all far-fetched) future where the planet is in environmental ruin and everyone — who could afford to — has left earth to find home elsewhere. It centers around a small Black community who live off the coast of the Bay of Fundy, and have created certain customs in order to carry on the tradition of survival. The most important of these customs being the ‘Rites,’ a coming-of-age ceremony which involves
After two years of virtual and hybrid events, the Holiday Book Fair returns to Concordia University’s McConnell Building Atrium (1400 Maisonneuve Blvd W.) November 2-5 (11 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
On the surface, A House Unsettled (Annick Press, out now), the new novel by Montreal writer Trynne Delaney, is a classic haunted house story (and a genuinely chilling one at that). It’s also a powerful coming of age story, fraught with difficult family and social dynamics as well as an incisive exploration of race, gender,
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