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Toronto, ON · TorontoIris and the Dead is an aggressively good title, you know? Just incredible. It’s a complicated novel, too, full of twists and turns and despite what seems like it could be a fairly clearcut protagonist (our narrator, the writer of the story, a young woman looking back at an abusive therapy relationship when she was eighteen, following a period of atypical depression) versus a villain (the abuser, Iris, a therapist who is assigned to the narrator…Read Article
Iris and the Dead by Miranda Schreiber
Miramichi · MiramichiLeila Mottley splashed onto the literary scene in 2022, with her debut novel, Nightcrawling, making the Booker Prize longlist. She wrote it at 17 and was 20 when it was published. I read it on my porch in Miramichi the summer of 2022, and hated it heartily. I did not see why it had gotten onto the Booker longlist, and I loudly proclaimed so to all who asked for my opinion (so two people). But when I saw that Mottley was coming out with a new nov…Read Article
The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley
Vancouver, British Columbia · VancouverThis conversation took place on June 17th, 2025, in an online interview in Vancouver. It has been edited for length and for clarity. I recently had the opportunity to talk with celebrated BC author, Bill Arnott about his new book A Season in the Okanagan. His new book follows in the vein of his other travel memoirs, combining great personal stories, set in the the geological history of a place, and augmented by the stories of the people he meets…Read Article
