Fictions, Fantasies, and Thought Experiments: The Year in Canada.

This article discusses three recent publications in Canadian life writing that challenge traditional genre boundaries and blur the lines between memoir, biography, and fiction. The texts mentioned are "Clifford" by Harold R. Johnson, "Split Tooth" by Tanya Tagaq, and "Machine Without Horses" by Helen Humphreys. These books explore the themes of trauma and the role of narrative in healing. The article emphasizes the significance of these texts in expanding the boundaries of Canadian life narrative and challenging representations of stable and verifiable selves. [Extracted from the article]