Books set in Canadian cities?

[Anonymous No.23163361]

What are some books set in Canadian cities?

Canada has changed drastically in the last 20 or so years. What are some novels that capture the time before the mass migration, or books that capture the current time we're living in of drug use, foreign influence, and atomization?

Let's see if the mods ban this thread while allowing the "kill yourself guy" to spam up threads telling people to kill themselves while they're never banned.

[Anonymous No.23163417]

I don't know dick about Canadian novelists, unless I've read one by accident. I can only imagine that books critical of the government and policies wouldn't be funded and subsidized by the government, as 80% of the media is.

[Anonymous No.23163435]

>>23163417
Who wins book awards in Canada?

The crazy amount of astroturfing of Canadian culture is exactly why I have to never stop writing and always push to get my voice out. Would be nice to find a handful of other Canadian authors like me in the world. It is hard to organize online because without meeting face-to-face, it is impossible to trust anyone else.

[Anonymous No.23163459]

Norm Macdonald's Based In a True Story: A Memoir

[Anonymous No.23163469]

>>23163459
Not sure if this is centered around a Canadian city and the urban culture contained within, but Norm is definitely a gem in a sea of shit.

[Anonymous No.23163483]

>>23163361
>>23163417
>>23163435
Samefag. Stop shilling your shit, Jason.

[Anonymous No.23163529]

>>23163483
Not shilling, friendo, we're discussing literature based in Canadian cities. Got anything to add?

[Anonymous No.23163638]

>>23163529
your wife and daughter hate you and left you for a reason

[Anonymous No.23163653]

>>23163638
I can still build another family once I have 10+ books done, so why would that be a concern?

You don't seem to have much ammunition against me. Why not attack the first line of my 3rd book? Oh wait, it's too good! :)

[Anonymous No.23163658]

>>23163653
help jason bryan build a new family! buy his books today!

[Anonymous No.23163667]

>>23163658
Whose books should we buy if we want to drain the Bryan genetic pool for good?

[Anonymous No.23163678]

It is funny that nobody is attacking the work anymore, it is too good.

[Anonymous No.23163751]

>>23163678
That's because nobody is bothering to read the Amazon preview anymore.

[Anonymous No.23163787]

>>23163751
Does /lit/ read, or does /lit/ just crab?

[Anonymous No.23163800]

>>23163787
WE READ. AND WE BOOST OUR KINGS UP OUT OF THE BUCKET

[Anonymous No.23163815]

>>23163800
>you dropped this

[Anonymous No.23163860]

>>23163751
Pure AI slop that occasionally lapses into the usual JB howlers, which makes for unintentionally hilarious reading.

[Anonymous No.23163880]

>>23163860
At least it won't put anyone to sleep like Zulu's snorefest trash.

[Anonymous No.23163893]

>>23163658
Who is Jason Bryan?

[Anonymous No.23163896]

>>23163860
I'd put chapter 3 or chapter 9 up against anything /lit/ has written. It flows so beautifully and is a fun read.

[Anonymous No.23163898]

>>23163880
>>23163896
Jason pls. This is embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.23163904]

>>23163361
The Jungle Book.
Siddhartha.
Curry and Rice.
The Siege of Krishnapur.
Journey to the West.
Dream of the Red Chamber.

[Anonymous No.23163906]

>>23163898
Not at all, the book is a work of art.

[Anonymous No.23163909]

>>23163904
>Curry and Rice.
Is this about Brampton?

What cities are these books about?

[Anonymous No.23163921]

>>23163909
https://archive.org/details/curryriceonforty00atkiuoft/page/n6/mode/1up

[Anonymous No.23163961]

>>23163921
Where do you people find this shit?

[Anonymous No.23164044]

>they can't find any paragraphs to ridicule and they don't post anymore because the book is too good

[Anonymous No.23164189]

Need more urban tales of insane crackheads and true misfits of the streets... where are these types of books?

I'd assume they'd all have to be relatively new, because the crackheads were never as crazy as they are in 2024 in 2004, for example. Shit, in 2004, the streets were practically pristine in comparison to the insane shit you can witness on nearly any decently large town in Canada.

[Anonymous No.23164269]

>>23163361
It might not be what you want, but you might enjoy:
Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies
The Underpainter, by Jane Urquhart
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by Stephen Leacock
Fifteen Dogs, by Alex Alexis
In The Skin of a Lion, by Michael Ondaatje
Obasan, by Joy Kogawa
Those are the ones that I've read.

Otherwise, there's probably a bunch authors which probably satisfy your question, but I can't speak to their quality or enjoyment:
Mordecai Richler
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Miriam Toews
Margaret Laurence
Alice Munro
Douglas Coupland

Regardless, as a country, we lack a real literary tradition outside of some poets that no one reads.

[Anonymous No.23164282]

>>23164269
>Douglas Coupland
This dude is gay, a complete fucking hack, and 100% astroturfed by our shitty state broadcaster here in Canada. This dude is a living embodiment of globohomo and 100% supports everything you'd imagine a modern Canadian supports.

[Anonymous No.23164288]

>>23164282
>or books that capture the current time we're living in of drug use, foreign influence, and atomization
The little I've read of him, I've disliked.

[Anonymous No.23164303]

>>23164288
I've met him before and he's 100% exactly like you'd expect. The "arts scene" in Vancouver was basically gay communists who get government grants and interviews from the CBC. The 4-5 years I spent navigating those social circles really opened my eyes to how much certain groups take over crowds and institutions. To find masculine straight men who write, or even make art at all, is so fucking rare. It is 90%+ queer mystery meats or women, the rest gay guys. A couple regular women, the rest are all the septum-piercing types who hate capitalism but exist because of capitalism.

[Anonymous No.23164312]

>>23164288
Douglas Coupland, to sum him up in 1 sentence, is a big blubbering gay man who is gay gay gay and open about it, and flirty with every cock within 30 feet.

The embodiment of fat gay man who hits on every man stereotype. He had a bunch of groupies around him and was just doing the "I'm a bald fat gay man" routine. This is what gets you popular in Canadian art circles.

[Anonymous No.23164885]

Vancouver "art", almost as bad as the anti-white exhibit that ran recently indoors at the art gallery. Douglas Cope-land is a complete hack, which is exactly why the guy gets press in this shithole of a country.

[Anonymous No.23164994]

>>23163361
>>23163417
This is a question that can be answered by Google. There are Canadian literary foundations and literary magazines, University programs, professors, all kinds of references available to you.

[Anonymous No.23165005]

>>23164994
>here are Canadian literary foundations and literary magazines, University programs, professors,
As the second anon quoted, that was the problem I highlighted. I'm aware of the Canadian publishing industry and how it works, which turned me off from reading anything written since I've been alive.

[Anonymous No.23165020]

>>23164994
>There are Canadian literary foundations and literary magazines, University programs, professors, all kinds of references available to you.
Those are all staffed by fags and normies, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.23165027]

>>23164994
>septum piercing personified

[Anonymous No.23165443]

>>23165027
Admittedly, I haven't read her stuff, but she's a nice person to talk to.

[Anonymous No.23165507]

>>23165443
All of these writers are indoctrinated at the Universities and share all of the same opinions. It is partially why the Canadian cultural landscape is so completely and utterly devoid of organic life.

They are all sheltered as fuck, and the winners are all chosen based on their "minority" identities. We are living in Trudeau's complete dystopia.

[Anonymous No.23165946]

>>23165443
When did you talk to her, and why?

[Anonymous No.23167145]

>>23163361
Set in Montreal

[Anonymous No.23167192]

>>23167145
Can't find anywhere to read it online

[Anonymous No.23167252]

>>23167192
That was not a requirement on the OP.

[Anonymous No.23167265]

>>23167145
I read this book when I was like 10 or 11–my aunt had it on her bookshelf, and from the cover I assumed it was a kid’s book. It left me moderately traumatised.

>>23167192
It’s on libgen, retard.

[Anonymous No.23167266]

>>23167265
Link, dork?

[Anonymous No.23167272]

>>23167266
Go on libgen and look it up yourself, retard.

[Anonymous No.23167285]

Who's Jason?

[Anonymous No.23167317]

>>23167285
Most based man in Canada

[Anonymous No.23167391]

Look up Quebecois romans du terroir if you want stuff from old OLD Canada with heavy tradcath nationalist vibes.

also you should kill yourself

[Anonymous No.23167432]

>>23167391
>OLD Canada with heavy tradcath nationalist vibes.
You mean the fags that let the country turn into what it is today?

>also you should kill yourself
Going to keep writing while you seethe on the sidelines

[Anonymous No.23167667]

>>23167272
>504 Gateway Time-out
Site's fucked yo

[Anonymous No.23167786]

>>23167667
The libgen link worked for me, so I uploaded the epub to a file sharing service for you. Here you go, retard.
https://gofile.io/d/AwfNF7

[Anonymous No.23167867]

>>23167786
Sweet, thanks dipshit

[Anonymous No.23167877]

>>23165946
She's the currently the Mabel Pugh Taylor Writer in Residence for McMaster University. She works with writers and collaborates with the Hamilton Public Library at different events.
Her time is almost up in the position, but there are a few events that she's still slated for in the local scene.
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to book 1-on-1 time with her regarding my writing, since her office hours were filled with subpar academics and hack geriatrics. No real loss, since I'm willing to guess that she wouldn't like my stuff (nor I hers).

[Anonymous No.23167919]

>>23167877
Diversity hire 100%

[Anonymous No.23168532]

>>23167786
Haha that book is decent, the part where the 12 year old is slamming the broomhandle on the floor because the nammers downstairs are cooking stinky food is 100% accurate. I lived in a building when I was like 20 years old and a neighbour ate durian and half the building wanted to fucking lynch them. Someone threw a brick through their patio window and they finally stopped bringing that fucking fruit into the building.

[Anonymous No.23168981]

>trying to think of anything set in St. John's specifically, or Newfoundland generally
>most of the shit is "white trash townies acting like white trash" - drug users, petty crime enthusiasts, etc.
>what isn't, is stuff like "a complete history of one shipwreck off of Podunk Cove"

[Anonymous No.23168990]

>>23167867
no prob, virgin

[Anonymous No.23168993]

Sunshine sketches of a little town is good for this purpose, but it's old.

Watch early seasons of trailer park boys if you want to see what Canada was like 20 years ago. Unironicqlly accurate, especially for maritimers

[Anonymous No.23168994]

>>23168981
>Newfoundland
Pictel if you like historical fiction (sort of), or a handful of books by the same authot

[Anonymous No.23169118]

There's always Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

[Anonymous No.23169326]

>>23168994
i've read The Innocents. It was pretty good desu I need to check The Adversary out, thanks anon!

[Anonymous No.23169564]

>>23163361
The last 2 books I tried reading that were set in Canada turned out to both be about trannies.

[Anonymous No.23169968]

>>23169564
Hahahaha, yep, Canada for you!

[Anonymous No.23170050]

>>23169564
Do you remember what they were called? I want to look up whether or not the government paid for them... Canada is so fucked.