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Canadian Literature's Winter 2009 issue (CL#203), "Home, Memory, Self", celebrates the home with papers about migrant identities, ghettoization, comics history, Alzheimer's disease, settlement narratives, and exile writing.

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New Book Review

Out of the North, Into the Desert

Joseph Boyden (Author)

Through Black Spruce. Penguin Books

Fred Stenson (Author)

The Great Karoo. Doubleday Canada Limited

Reviewed by Gordon Bölling

In an interview in February 2006, Joseph Boyden disclosed that his debut novel, Three Day Road (2005), is only the first part of what he refers to as a "triptych of novels." With the middle panel still missing, Through Black Spruce, the 2008 winner of the Giller Prize, functions as the third part in Boyden's series. Readers familiar with Three Day Road will instantly recognize the hallmarks of Boyden's powerful storytelling in this new book. Boyden's second novel is [...]

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