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LIT CANLIT
Rake in Autumn’s hottest
Canuck reads, and visit ZED:
The Zoomer Book Club at
everythingzoomer.com/book-club
By Mike Crisolago
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
Thirty-four years after the re-
lease of The Handmaid’s Tale
- which has been adapted into
everything from a graphic
novel to an opera to an award-
winning TV series – Canada’s
Queen of Letters returns with
its long-awaited sequel, which
brings readers back to Gilead
15 years after the events of the
original book.
Akin by Emma Donoghue
The best-selling Room author
offers up an intergenerational
tale that follows a retired pro-
fessor as he heads to France to
uncover his family’s troubled
history, all the while caring for
an 11-year-old great-nephew he
just met.Talking to Strangers
by Malcolm Gladwell
One of the leading intellectuals
of his age, Gladwell uses ex-
amples from history to today’s
headlines to explore how our
inability to understand people
we don’t know can dramatically
affect our perspectives on the
world around us.The Innocents
by Michael Crummey
Celebrated East Coast scribe
Michael Crummey returns to
his native Newfoundland for his
latest tome, in which orphaned
siblings must endure storms
both environmental and per-
sonal to survive on the Rock.The Wake
by Linden MacIntyre
The Giller Prize-winning auth-
or returns to his journalistic
roots in recounting the dead-
ly 1929 tsunami that devastat-
ed Newfoundland, including the
town where he was born, and
how its consequences rippled
for decades after the tragedy.The Wagers
by Sean Michaels
Yet another Giller winner,
Michaels’ second novel follows
a Montreal comic who can’t
catch a break, until he discov-
ers a secret organization that
chooses who’ll receive good
luck and another group that
takes fortune back from the
too-lucky.A Better Man
by Louise Penny
Beloved detective Chief
Inspector Armand Gamache is
back, and this time he’s search-
ing for a missing young woman
while both rising Quebec flood-
waters and negative public
opinion threaten to sink the
sleuth for good.A Delhi Obsession
by M.G. Vassanji
Vassanji’s claimed the Giller
Prize twice in his celebrated
career and could aim for a third
with this tale of love and na-
tionalism in which a Canadian
widower travels to Delhi for
the first time and falls for a
local journalist.^Zoom In Etc