Novels


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A raw absorbing, tender and witty novel about a woman’s long overdue reckoning with memory truth and the multiverse of familial love.

AVAILABLE MARCH 2021

McClelland & Stewart

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“…a morally complex, magnificently vivid novel full of characters who live and breathe. This is a dazzling debut.”

Lisa Moore, author of Caught and February

Smoke River, McClelland & Stewart (2014)

winner: Hamilton Literary Award

short listed: The North American Hammett Award

“The best books destroy you, overwhelm you with deep feelings — despair, anger, love, defiance, frustration, yearning, bitterness, pain. In her debut novel, former journalist and two-time Journey Prize finalist Krista Foss elicits precisely this reaction … ” –Quill & Quire

“…even if the story were not a gripping exploration of town/reserve relations, Smoke River would be a glorious read just for Foss’s imagery, which conjures up a hot, humid Ontario summer that seems to shimmer off the page…” - The Toronto Star