Bookworm, no. 129

Caroline Noël on Sara Peters’s “Mother of God.” Jadine Ngan reviews “Best Canadian Essays 2026.” Inside the January/February issue.

In the Flesh

Mother of God
Sara Peters
McClelland & Stewart
224 pages, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook

Sara Peters’s Mother of God follows Marlene, a thirty-seven-year-old self-employed exorcist who hasn’t visited her alcoholic mother, Darlene, for several years. That changes when an unexpected phone call draws her from Vancouver, where she lives, back to he…