The Seaboard Review of Books: Monday Edition

April 20, 2026

Inside The Happy Duck Bookshop & Readery, Truro, Nova Scotia

In this issue:

• The Fall-Down Effect by Liz Johnston (Fiction)

• The Usual Desire to Kill by Camilla Barnes (Fiction)

• Good Guys by Sharon Bala (Fiction)

• Hooked by Asako Yuzuki (Fiction)

• Rum Diary: Canada, Alcoholism, and the Colonial Sweep (Non-Fiction)

• Interview with Naomi MacKinnon, an Independent Bookstore Owner

Thanks for reading this issue of The Seaboard Review of Books!

James M. Fisher, editor-in-chief

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