Gaspereau: 3 books

In The Geography of Arrival George Sipos revisits the city of London Ontario where his family settled after immigrating to Canada from Hungary in 1957. Divided into short chapters each related to a different local landmark the book depicts the world through the eyes of a boy getting the hang of...

Bruce Johnson's debut novel Firmament offers a fictional meditation on the real life community of Caplin Cove Newfoundland. Resisting the sentimental or documentary approaches common to many Newfoundland novels Johnson braids songs folk-tales scripture dreams diaries and poems together into...

In his third novel, Norman Ravvin writes about a father and his young son, and the companionship they develop at home and on the road. Returning to the wanderlust of his travelogue Hidden Canada and to the European Jewish past that often underwrites his characters’ lives, Ravvin follows the interconnections...