The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit

9 best books like The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit (J.J. Lee): The Boat People, Free as a Bird, Tomboy Survival Guide, That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away, How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), Dead Girls, La Femme qui fuit, Forgiveness

The Boat People

Author

Sharon Bala

When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government...

Free as a Bird

Author	Gina McMurchy-Barber
ISBN	1554884470

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...

Tomboy Survival Guide

Author	Ivan E. Coyote
ISBN	1551526565

Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the author of ten previous books, including Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in Every Crowd, a collection for LGBT youth. Tomboy Survival Guide is a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Ivan recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing...

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

Author	Lori Shenher
ISBN	1771640936

An ex-police detective’s searing personal account of sexism, racism, and mishandling in the investigation of missing and murdered women.

In That Lonely Section of Hell, police detective Lori Shenher describes her role in Vancouver’s infamous Missing and Murdered Women Investigation...

How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir

Author	Amber Dawn
ISBN	1551525003

As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.

Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical...

Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

Author	Kamal Al-Solaylee
ISBN	1443441430

Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction and the Trillium Book Award

A Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Life, Walrus, CBC Books, Chatelaine, Hill Times, 49th Shelf and Writers’ Trust Best Book of the Year

With the urgency and passion of...

Dead Girls

Author	Nancy Lee
ISBN	0771052502

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...

La Femme qui fuit

Author	Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
ISBN	2923896505

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette n'a pas connu la mère de sa mère. De sa vie, elle ne savait que très peu de choses. Cette femme s'appelait Suzanne. En 1948, elle est aux côtés de Borduas, Gauvreau et Riopelle quand ils signent Refus Global. Avec Barbeau, elle fonde une famille. Mais très tôt, elle abandonne...

Forgiveness

Author	Mark Sakamoto
ISBN	1443417971

The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War-and a moving tribute to the nature of forgiveness

When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean traded his quiet yet troubled life on the Magdalene Islands in eastern Canada for the ravages of war overseas....