In Episode 179, Gen and Jette team up with one of their favourite indie publishers, House of Anansi Press. We're reading the newly released English translation of The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki. This one broke our hearts.

Show Notes

Ryad Assani-Razaki is a Beninese-Canadian writer and The Hand of Iman, or La main d'Iman in French, is his first novel. It won the Prix Robert Cliche in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Governer General's Award in 2012.

Check out our full list of House of Anansi episodes below.

We did in fact have an episode dedicated to our 100th! What should we do for 200? We're getting close!

In our next episode we'll be talking about Gen's book club pick, the graphic novel edition of The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater.

We'll be following up our book club episode with a Page to Screen episode and some CanCon for you with Scott Pilgrim!

Other House of Anansi Episodes

20: 2019 House of Anansi Spring Releases (Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin and Autopsy of a Boring Wife by Marie-Renée Lavoie)

39: House of Anansi New Releases 2020 (Pallbearing by Michael Melgaard and Coming Up for Air by Sarah Leipciger)

43: You Are Not What We Expected by Sidura Ludwig

70: A Boring Wife Settles the Score by Marie-Renée Lavoie

97: A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm

128: The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird

156: Who Will Bury You? by Chido Muchemwa

Other Books Mentioned

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa (Episode 124)

Paper House by Dominique Fortier (Episode 26)

Born by Heather Birrell (Episode 174)

Parable of the Sower by Octavie Butler (Episode 172)

The Late-Night Witches by Auralee Wallace

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid