Nikolski — Canada Reads 2010 winner
by Nicolas Dickner
translated by Lazer Lederhendler
Vintage/Random House of CanadaCoincidence and chance are major players in Nicholas Dickner's enchanting novel about three young Montrealers on unique but overlapping quests: a used-bookstore clerk, a fish-gutter who dreams of becoming a pirate and an archeology student who parses urban garbage.
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Defended by Michel Vézina.
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Good to a Fault
by Marina Endicott
Freehand Books
In one moment, a middle-aged Saskatoon woman's life is turned topsy-turvy in Marina Endicott's compassionate and humorous novel. Clara Purdy wonders what it means to do right by others in this day and age, and the choices she makes take her into surprising new terrain.
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Defended by Simi Sara.
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
by Douglas Coupland
St. Martin's Press/H.B. Fenn and Company Ltd.
This tale of three young people searching for meaning in the California desert captured the mood of an era and became an international bestseller. With its wry mix of real-life and made-up stories, Douglas Coupland's groundbreaking novel continues to appeal to new generations.
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Defended by Roland Pemberton.
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The Jade Peony
by Wayson Choy
Douglas & McIntyre
Wayson Choy combines vivid historical detail and poignant personal stories in this lyrical, note-perfect tale of three children growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown during the Depression and the Second World War.
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Defended by Samantha Nutt.
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Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Vintage/Random House of Canada
Ann-Marie MacDonald's enthralling debut novel explores the tangled relationships of the Piper sisters and their powerful father. Moving from Cape Breton to the killing fields of Europe and on to New York in the Jazz Age, this international bestseller is a dark, dramatically compelling story of a family with secrets.
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Defended by Perdita Felicien.
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Panelists
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Perdita Felicien is defending Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald |
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Samantha Nutt is defending The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy |
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Roland Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon is defending Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland |
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Simi Sara is defending Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott |
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Michel Vézina is defending Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler |
