Jack Bootle

In Jack Bootle's Psalm 77, a man looks back on his school days, recalling the joy and torment of a secret love affair with a boy obsessed with the language of the King James Bible. Deep in Ontario cottage country, twins try to navigate the differences between the families we are born into versus the families we choose in Meghan Rose Allen's Eleven Miles There, Twelve Miles Back. On his final assignment, Father Michael is assigned to a war-torn country where he is told a story of ill-fated lovers in Angels Crossing by Don McLellan. Part travelogue, part memoir, part diary, Memories of a Carnivore by Julie Dupuis pieces together the fragmented recollections of one womans rocky journey toward vegetarianism.