When Place is a Character

Canada Reads American Style

Rebecca and Tara highlight books they've read in which the location or place is a distinct character in the novel.

Rebecca (@canadareadsamericanstyle):

• True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Governor Gretchen Whitmer
• Widow Fantasies by Hollay Ghadery
• Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez / Scarborough, Ontario
• Brother by David Chariandy / Scarborough, Ontario
• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay / Hanging Rock, Victoria, Australia
• The Street by Ann Petry / Harlem, New York City
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather / Nebraska
• Denison Ave by Christina Wong / Chinatown, Kensington Market
• Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill / Toronto
• The Lost Ones (Nora Watts series) by Sheena Kamal / Vancouver
• The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty / Vacca Vale, Indiana
• Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah / Montreal
• Chevy in the Hole by Kelsey Ronan / Flint, Michigan
• The Break by Katherina Vermette / Winnipeg's North End

Tara (@onabranchreads):

• Death & Other Inconveniences by Lesley Crewe
• Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir by Julia Zarankin
• Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life by Jonathan Van Ness
• Road Ends by Mary Lawson
• Lost Girls by Andrew Pyper / Northern Ontario, Cottage Country
• The Dry by Jane Harper / Australia
• River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta / Toronto
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery / Prince Edward Island
• Galore by Michael Crummey / Newfoundland
• David Adams Richards / New Brunswick