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ALL KIDDING ASIDE

By Jean-Christophe Réhel In Books, Featured Books, and QC Fiction Tagged In All Kidding Aside, Canada, comedy, grief, humour, literary fiction, literature in translation, Mental Health, Montreal, QC Fiction, Quebec, Queer, Schizophrenia, translation, and WORKING CLASS.

SEPTEMBER 2025. FINALIST for the 2025 FOREWORD INDIES PRIZE FOR HUMOUR FINALIST for the 2026 GOVERNOR GENERAL LITERARY AWARD FOR TRANSLATION  Young, queer and stuck, Louis lives in Montreal’s east end with his rap-obsessed schizophrenic brother and their terminally ill father. While working at a Tim Horton’s, Louis dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. Delivered… Read more »

Still Crying for Help

By Sadia Messaili In Books Tagged In antipsychotics, Ferid Ferkovic, Mental Healthcare, Mental Illness, psychiatry, Sadia Messaili, Schizophrenia, still crying for help, and suicide.

“This achingly told story is a love letter from mother to son… A powerful book.” Susan Doherty, award-winning author of The Ghost Garden 2020. A 32-year-old man with mental illness ends his life. Could he have been saved? What care did he receive? Did antipsychotics help or are they a modern-day straitjacket? Ferid Ferkovic, the… Read more »