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  Most Grievous Fault

  Meg Todd

  Crystal Constantine, 29 years old and struggling to pay the rent and meet the overwhelming needs of her 14-year-old daughter, Becky, who is suspected of having fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, is not coping well. But when Becky responds positively to the rules and structure of a private Catholic school, Crystal starts to think that a similar change to her life – that is, dating the straitlaced, religious Tim – might work. But in order to do so, she has to hide who she is and perpetuate the intergenerational trauma that started with her own alcoholic mother.

  (Nightwood Editions, $24.95 Paperback, 400 pages, ISBN: 978-08-89714-98-4)  

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  Sem’s Map

  Rebecca Thomas, Azby Whitecalf (Illustrator)

  Young Sem is confused when his teacher Mr. Trainer shows the class a map that is the same shape as Turtle Island, but has lines and squares all over, and different names than he knows from his Kiju’s stories. So he asks Mr. Trainer if Kiju can come to class to share her stories of the land with all the students. The book includes colonial and decolonial maps of Turtle Island.

  (Nimbus Publishing Limited, $22.95 Hardcover, 32 pages, ISBN: 978-17-74714-19-5)  

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