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Posted on August 31, 2015 by Itzik Basman| 3 Comments

A raunchy ride through working class,1950s Jewish Canada. From Winnipeg to Vancouver to Toronto- Heshy Azberg finds sex, God and the blues in this coming-of-age tale. (Yiddish & coarse language warning!)

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Posted on October 13, 2014 by Ayelet Tsabari| Leave a comment

Mireille Silcoff invites us into a world of rich storytelling; of beauty and pain. Each languidly-paced story draws us in to its reflective, sometimes tragic, often funny and always compelling characters.

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Posted on April 16, 2014 by Tamara Kramer| Leave a comment

Listen to Anna Leventhal read from Sweet Affliction, her excellent collection of short stories. In this story a young woman has an odd encounter with a Chasidic boy she meets in her neighbourhood.

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Posted on February 1, 2013 by Ariela Freedman| 1 Comment

Ariela Freedman reviews Jami Attenberg’s novel The Middlesteins. “How could she not feed her daughter?” This is the question that sets the tone for five year-old Edie’s epic story of love, family and…eating oneself to death.

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