ArticlesKim Uduman
Kim Uduman is rediscovering her love for books through working with the Association of Manitoba Book Publishers. Also an aspiring writer, Kim writes voluntarily for The Uniter and on her blog natureofkimca.wordpress.com/. Besides reading fantasy or mystery novels, she loves caring for her plants, and cuddling her orange tabby cat while enjoying an oat milk latte.
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FictionParallel narrative and playfulness mark Grayson’s return to adult fiction
With her new novel, The Twistical Nature of Spoons, Winnipeg author Patti Grayson returns to adult fiction after a brief foray into middle years/YA fiction. She appears to have kept a childlike sense of playfulness and wonder, though, in this story of magic and curses. -
FictionFirst book of fantasy quintet shares diversity in gender and species while honouring found family
The Stars of Mount Quixx is the fascinating and fantastical first book of the new Brindlewatch Quintet by S. M. Beiko. The narrative follows the Ivyweather sisters, two outsiders, forced into spending their summer vacation in the always foggy town Quixx, built on the slope of a mountain rumoured to be filled with monsters. -
FictionA veterinarian and wannabe detective engages with hometown dynamics
“This province too often gets short shrift, and is dismissed as dull or as not especially distinct from its western neighbours, but there is a definite ‘Manitobaness’ that I want to introduce to people,” Philipp Schott says about setting his new novel, Fifty-Four Pigs, in Manitoba.
