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How to Start a Charter Airline: The novels of Susan Haley, formerly of Tulita, NWT

It’s refreshing to read a novel set in the North that doesn’t use emphasize the “remoteness” or “harsh winters,” but rather the warmth to be found there.

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Arctic Smoke: A weird punk mystery of a book I barely scraped through

I’ve become something of a scholar of novels written by people who’ve spent time in the Arctic. Not recommending this one. 

saraminogue fiction Leave a comment 19th Nov 201926th Dec 2019 2 Minutes

Booze and sex collide in this warm, gritty novel of AA in Yellowknife

Whoa! This book isn’t just about alcoholism: it’s about promiscuity, and the forces that drive it, and that’s something we just don’t talk about. 

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Tatsea, a novel, takes us deep into 18th century Tlicho life

A historical novel imagines two eighteenth century lovers forced into exile in and around present day Whati.

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A former CBC-er wrote a novel about a classical musician’s escape to Iqaluit

In Joe Fiorito’s 2002 novel, a concert pianist runs away from the Toronto cultural scene and into the arms of a not-even-thinly disguised Bryan Pearson. 

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Sanaaq, the first Inuit novel

I enjoyed Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk's sketches of life in Arctic Quebec in the years and months before the first white men come to stay for good. The book also confounded me a little. Is it comedy? Tragedy? I have no way of knowing.

saraminogue fiction Leave a comment 17th Sep 201919th Jul 2021 3 Minutes

A short review of an extremely good novel set in Kamchatka 

It’s not the North I had in mind when I started this blog, but I have to recommend this amazing work of fiction set in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. 

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Whatever you do, do not read Arctic: A Novel, by Finn Schultz-Lorentzen

Let the public rest assured: when a forty-plus-year-old novel is totally forgotten and remains obscure and hard to find, there’s a reason for that.

saraminogue fiction Leave a comment 19th Jul 201919th Jul 2021 3 Minutes

Consumption: A medical redemption wrapped in the epic tale of TB in the North

Somehow this book didn’t make a strong impression the first time I read it. Re-reading it, I was struck by its scale and scope, and completely drawn into the hopes and fates of its many characters. And it doesn’t get any better than that.

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Moccasin Square Gardens, or: Man that Richard Van Camp writes a lot of stories

I loved nearly all of the short stories in Van Camp’s latest collection, but when I got to “Ehtsée/Grandpa," I was actually kind of blown away.

saraminogue fiction 1 Comment 9th May 201925th Feb 2020 3 Minutes

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