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Northern Light is a book by Kazim Ali.(Goose Lane Editions)
Kazim Ali was the child of South Asian immigrants, who unexpectedly spent years of his childhood in the small Manitoba town of Jenpeg, a town that existed because of the hydroelectric dam nearby. As an adult, he found himself wondering about the town: did it even exist anymore? And if it did, what was it like? These questions sent him on a journey, one that looked at the environmental destruction the dam caused, and the local Pimicikamak community that fought against it.
Northern Light is Ali s story, the story of the Pimicikamak community and the story of a town that no longer exists.
May 8, 2021
Richard Lipez
THE WASHINGTON POST – Escape to California, Lebanon, Connecticut, Provence and not-so-merry England in these five first-rate new mysteries and thrillers. Sure, readers will find plenty of danger, intrigue and suspense in these pages, but it’s all at a comfortably safe distance.
THE ANATOMY OF DESIRE BY LR DORN
Among the career possibilities my high school guidance counselor never mentioned to me some years back was “social media influencer.” This peculiar phenomenon is at the centre of LR Dorn’s spicy update of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 classic, An American Tragedy.
In the original, social-climbing Clyde Griffiths is accused of drowning his pregnant girlfriend so he can marry a socialite.