The article focuses on 2019's literary fiction centred on coming of age in various contexts by Canadian author. Topics discussed include coming-of-age story appears in Allan Weiss's interlinked short stories in "Telescope"; coming of age in Shilpi Gowda's "The Shape of Family," Amy Jones's "Every Little Piece of Me," and Todd Babiak's "The Empress of Idaho" which is marked by interventions that deform the process; and information on Michael Jones's environmental saga.