In this issue, our core ORB reviewers offer their takes on four recent works of fiction by Canadian authors: Candas Jane Dorsey, Brenda Chapman, Eileen Cook and Sidura Ludwig. All good reads as we enter our eighth month of the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been a long haul and there still is a way to go, but as we say in French “ça va bien aller!” The upside is that there is no better time to read a book, buy a book or write a book!