Other Evolutions by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia
(ECW Press)
October 7, 2025
GARCIA’S FIRST NOVEL, Other Evolutions, tells the story of a young girl of Jewish and Mexican heritage who lives in Ottawa. Alma Alt learns that her sister, in Montreal, is passing as white. In the book, Hirsch Garcia, also author of The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories, explores themes of family conflict and post-accident trauma. The novel offers a timely exploration of coming of age in an interfaith, interracial Canadian household from an up-and-coming Canadian Jewish writer. Phoebe Maltz Bovy
