In this issue, the ORB team reviews ten recent works of fiction by Claire Holden Rothman, Marianne Ackerman, Anna Leventhal, Michael Mirolla, Su J. Sokol, Deborah Ellis, Kurtis J. Wiebe, Connie Guzzo-McParland, Barbara Fradkin and Bertrand Laverdure. We also have a special feature by John Last on South Asian Writers in Canada.