Larissa Lai
A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore. This extraordinary first novel focuses on a man who reconnects with his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia. finalist, governor general’s literary award longlisted, scotiabank giller prize longlisted, impac dublin literary award
A fox spirit comes to haunt a young woman living in Vancouver, bringing the history of another haunting, that of the T’ang Dynasty poet Yu Hsuan-Chi. One part history, one part fairytale, one part urban discontent, this delightful novel cracks open all preconceptions of Asian women, gender, sexuality, family, faith, and the flow of time. By the author of Automaton Biographies (page 32).
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WHEN FOX IS A THOUSAND
David Chariandy
N O C TI FI
SOUCOUYANT
A particularly acute pleasure. —The Advocate
A haunting coming-of-age story. —Publishers Weekly
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isbn 978-1-55152-226-5 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-376-7
isbn 978-1-55152-168-8 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-339-2
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A LITTLE DISTILLERY IN NOWGONG
BEAUTY PLUS PITY
Ashok Mathur
Kevin Chong
This fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India from the late 1800s to present day. The narrative follows the family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and North America.
A modern immigrant’s tale about a slacker twentysomething Asian-Canadian living in Vancouver who is about to embark on a modelling career when his life is suddenly derailed by two near-simultaneous events: the death of his filmmaker father, and the betrayal of his fiancée who has left him. Soon he meets Hadley, the half-sister he never knew existed—the result of his father’s extramarital affair. A little beauty of a novel: funny, wise, and subtly heartbreaking ... [Chong’s] understanding of humanity’s foibles is wonderful, and Malcolm’s trek to maturity is one I won’t soon forget. —Winnipeg Review
One of the finest novels of the year. —Vancouver Sun
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isbn 978-1-55152-461-0 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-345-3
isbn 978-1-55152-416-0 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-415-3
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ANTICIPATED RESULTS
V6A
Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside John Mikhail Asfour and Elee Kraljii Gardiner (eds)
Dennis E. Bolen A short-story collection whose recurring characters are lost members of the Boomer Generation—chronic underachievers at work and love whose malaise is tempered by booze and cars. Anticipated Results could be about any of us, wracked with self-doubt and anguish over what has come before, yet still clinging with vigour to the idea of what may yet come to be. Bolen’s spare language and elliptical narrative style recall Raymond Carver, one of the masters of the modern short story. —National Post
This anthology refracts the experience of thirty-two writers, emerging and established, who have been a part of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside community in some way. Their prose, poetry, and essays reappropriate the coding of the area and recase the DTES as a site of creative energy and human dignity. vancouver book award finalist
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isbn 978-1-55152-400-9 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-417-7
isbn 978-1-55152-462-7 • e-isbn 978-1-55152-463-4
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