2023 City of Regina Award Winner
Review of the Palimpsest Press paperback (May, 2022)

The Sunday Book is Michael Trussler's 2nd essay collection. It has a crossover with his other recent book The History Forest (University of Regina Press, September 2022) as the essay Bodhisattva on a Bicycle appears in both volumes. This was the City of Regina Award Winner from our reading for the 2023 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Our Jury Recommendation written for the City of Regina Award Shortlist was:

Michael Trussler’s memoir in essays, The Sunday Book, offers unique insights into the “simultaneity” of historical and contemporary events. He ponders what it means “to conceive of the Holocaust in the twenty-first century.” Told through the lens of NLVD (non-verbal learning disorder), a developmentally-based disorder with which Trussler was diagnosed in adulthood, the essays—some in fragments that ultimately come together in articulate discontinuity—are a call to gratitude and humility.

I obtained a free copy of this book through the Saskatchewan Book Awards where it was a nominee for the City of Regina Award, for which I participated in a jury of 3 readers. This book was one of 5 which made our Shortlist and it was the eventual winner. We agreed to embargo our participation and opinions until after the Award Announcements on May 4, 2023.

Trivia with Link above
The Sunday Book was also the winner of the 2023 Non-Fiction Award of the Saskatchewan Book Awards as listed in the Award Announcements above.

Encounters (NeWest Press, 2006) an earlier book of short fiction by Michael Trussler was the winner of the 2006 City of Regina Award and the Book of the Year Award from the Saskatchewan Book Awards. ( )