Cordelia Strube

• Jun-2026
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A sharp and moving portrait of Ray — judge, single parent, and tightly leashed woman whose survival strategies seem suddenly to be coming apartRay, a single mother and superior court judge, pounds a punching bag in her basement to manage her an...

• Apr-2020
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Toronto Book Award Winner Cordelia Strube is back with another caustic, subversive, and darkly humorous book Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people aroun...

• Apr-2016
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Harriet is eleven, going on thirty. Her mixed media paintings are a source of wonder to her younger brother, Irwin, but an unmitigated horror to the panoply of insufficiently grown up grown-ups who surround her. She plans to run away to Algonquin Par...

• Apr-2013
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Milo doesn't quite have it all together. His acting career has stalled. His Latvian girlfriend dumped him. His miserable father has vanished. And Pablo and Wallace �" and then Wallace's mother too �" seem to have moved in to his house. Really, the ...

• Oct-2009
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Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award! Longlisted for the Giller Prize! The numbers are against Lemon �" three (sort of) mothers, one deadbeat dad, one cancer-riddled protege, one tree-hugging stepbrother and a 60% average �" but with the right (...

• Jan-2007
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Long-listed for the ReLit Award, 2009 Reese Larkin is desperate to find the perfect mattress. His job is in jeopardy and he’s been forced to separate from his wife and children, but he believes that if he can find the ultimate sleep system his li...

• Sep-2000
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“Told with such humour and suspense that it’s hard to put down . . . A rare achievement, an unstintingly honest, hilarious, and dreadful delight.” -- Globe and Mail Greer Pentland is having a challenging year. Her teenaged son, Sam, is on tri...

• Mar-1998
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“Vivid and fresh and finely crafted, this is a book that will strike a chord with anyone who has loved, lived, or wondered how we manage, in the face of our fragility, to carry on.” -- Nino Ricci This is the story of Zee, an aimless ex-lawyer w...

• Aug-1997
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• Jul-1997
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Milton is having an unbelievable midlife crisis. He feels like a loser-a reasonable conclusion for a dyslexic adult from a dysfunctional family. When his daughter dies, Milton loses his job, his wife leaves him, and the family he hates-his abusive mo...

• Feb-1997
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Rita wants to pop her six-year-old son Max in a baggie with a Ziploc top - so she can preserve his innocence and trust, so she won't have to watch him lose faith in the world. Everywhere she looks, she sees chaos. She fears she can never provide Max ...

• Mar-1995
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It maddens Alex that there has never been anyone in her life she has liked as much as Zee. Never been anyone who could make her laugh when she felt ready to put her fist through the wall. Never been anyone she's felt could withstand all forces of her...