news | Friday June 27, 2025

June is Audiobook Month!

Did you know? June is audiobook month! We love to listen to a book on the go. Picking out radishes at the grocery store? Audiobook! In transit? Audiobook! Cleaning up a stack of dishes? (You get the picture.) Here are a handful of available/forthcoming audiobooks to keep you company as you go about your day.

1. The Weight of Snow by Christian Guay-Poliquin, translated by David Homel

Available now! Listen to the winner of the Prix littéraire France-Québec, the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-Language Fiction, the Prix Ringuet, and the Prix littéraire des collégiens! After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in the snow and cut off from the world by a nationwide power failure. He is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for wood, food, and eventual escape from the village. Will they manage to stand up against external threats and intimate pitfalls? Download your copy here.

2. Unfuckable Lardass by Catriona Strang

Available now! Unfuckable Lardass reverts the patriarchy’s gaze. It began as an attempt to refract and undercut an outrageous insult allegedly lobbed at German Chancellor Angela Merkel. This stellar poetry collection draws on language from a wide range of sources – including European witch trials, Marx, Darwin, Renaissance and popular music, and common profanity, as well as from the author’s experience of post-reproductivity and of carrying out caring labour during declines, deaths, and the COVID-19 lockdown. Download your copy here.

3. Gaman – Perseverance: Japanese Canadians’ Journey to Justice by Art Miki

Keep your eyes peeled, because coming soon is the audiobook of the winner of a 2025 Canada-Japan Literary Award! Gaman – Perseverance is a revealing memoir by the former president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians that describes the long journey towards resolution for the historic injustice that deprived Japanese Canadians of their basic human rights during and after World War II. Gaman – Perseverance details the intense negotiations that took place in the 1980s between the Government of Canada and the NAJC – negotiations which finally resulted in the historic Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement of September 1988 and the acknowledgment by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that Canada had wronged its own citizens. Watch this space!

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