That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away

8 best books like That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away (Lori Shenher): Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants, Even this Page is White, Free as a Bird, The Reason You Walk, Ellen in Pieces, Dead Girls, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants
AuthorAnn Hui
ISBN1771622229
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada to answer two questions: Why is there a Chinese restaurant in every small town? And who are the families who run them? It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included — her parents...
Even this Page is White
AuthorVivek Shraya
ISBN1551526417
Amazingly, this is not the first book of poems by a transgender or gender fluid Canadian person-of-color that I've read in the last two weeks (the previous was A Place Called No Homeland, also highly recommended.) Another great read for National Poetry Month.

The subheadings of these poems...
Free as a Bird
AuthorGina McMurchy-Barber
ISBN1554884470
Born with Down syndrome, Ruby Jean Sharp comes from a time when being a developmentally disabled person could mean growing up behind locked doors and barred windows and being called names like "retard" and "moron." When Ruby Jean's caregiver and loving grandmother dies, her mother takes her to Woodlands...
AuthorWab Kinew
ISBN0670069345
A moving story of father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic Aboriginal star.

When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who’d raised...
AuthorCaroline Adderson
ISBN1443426806
In this witty, compelling and genre-bending novel, a single mother navigates the loves, lusts and losses of middle age to arrive at a final, bittersweet contentment.

Ellen McGinty: sexy, impulsive, loud-mouthed, chock full of regrets. In middle age she sells the house she raised her daughters...
AuthorNancy Lee
ISBN0771052502
Infused with eroticism, poignancy, and insight that cuts to the bone, these stories lead us into a tipping world of emotional wagers, loss and discovery, power and impulse. A marriage is tested as a mother struggles to cope with the disappearance of her prostitute daughter. Two angry women in a minivan...
AuthorJ.J. Lee
ISBN0771046472
Taking as its starting point a son's decision to alter his late father's last remaining suit for himself, this is a deeply moving and brilliantly crafted story of fathers and sons, of fitting in and standing out -- and discovering what it means to be your own man.

For years, journalist and amateur...
Islands of Decolonial Love: Stories & Songs
AuthorLeanne Betasamosake Simpson
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation.

Found on reserves, in cities and small towns,...
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