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Asian Canadian Books Contents CONNECT Click below to navigate Subscribe to NeWest Press video audio, news, and more by clicking on these links: DISAPPEARING MOON CAFE 3 PAPER TEETH 4 ITUNES PODCAST CHORUS OF MUSHROOMS 5 FACEBOOK BELINDA’S RINGS 6 TWITTER IN FLUX 7 DIAMOND GRILL 8 PACIFIC RIM LETTERS 9 TRANSCANADA LETTERS 10 WILD DAISIES IN THE SAND 11 FAKING IT 12 MOTHERTALK 13 COMPLETE LIST 14 DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION 17 CONTENTS | NeWest Press || Asian Canadian Books | 2 LANDMARK EDITION Disappearing Moon Cafe: Landmark Edition by SKY Lee Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, Raw human hungers, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth- “traditional imperatives, century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to blind and tragic forces of Vancouver’s Chinatown. racism conspire to weave a dense and tangled Intricate and lyrical, suspenseful and emotionally rich, it is a riveting web. SKY Lee’s skill at story of four generations of women whose lives are haunted by the unravelling the knots is secrets and lies of their ancestors but also by the racial divides and discrimination that shaped the lives of the first generation of Chinese mesmerizing.” immigrants to Canada. - Joy Kogawa, author of Obason Each character, intimately drawn through Lee’s richness of imagery and language, must navigate a world that remains inexorably Lee is an unusual story- “double”: Chinese and Canadian. About buried bones and secrets, “teller: brilliant, unrelenting unrequited desires and misbegotten love, murder and scandal, failure and humourous.” and success, the plot reveals a compelling microcosm of the history of - Joy Harjo, author of She race and gender relations in this country. Had Some Horses With a new afterword by Chris Lee and an author Q&A. Lee presents an unflinching “look at both the men and women of the culture, their passions, their hatreds FICTION SKY Lee grew up in Port Alberni, BC. In the and their unique gift—or ISBN 13 978-1-926455-81-5 late 1960s, she was a founder of the Asian BISAC: FIC004080, Canadian Writers’ Workshop. Her debut novel, curse—for survival.” FIC004060, FIC025010 Disappearing Moon Cafe, was nominated for a - Evelyn Lau, Vancouver 272 pp || 5.5 x 8.5” pb Governor General’s Literary Award and won the Province May 2017 || $20.95 City of Vancouver Book Award. NeWest Press || Asian Canadian Books | 3 Nunatak First Paper Teeth Fiction Series by Lauralyn Chow # 43 • Shortlisted for the 2017 Alberta Readers’ Choice Award! • Shortlisted for the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction at the 2017 Alberta Literary Awards! Paper Teeth is an amazing • Winner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book swirl through imagination’s “complicity with memory, both Prize! palpable and disappearing. The stories, some of them Lauralyn Chow’s debut, Paper Teeth, follows the lives of mini-novellas, are striking in the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their friends who how Lauralyn Chow improvises reside in Edmonton, Alberta. While playing with time and and juxtaposes the threads of place, from Edmonton in the 1960s and 70s up to present- quotidian particularities sewn day Calgary, Lauralyn Chow creates a world of walking into the folds of growing up. dolls, family car trips, fashion and frosty makeup, home This is a hungry book and the renovations inspired by pop culture, and moving up to big, hunger comes from deep need: new houses. The interconnected stories found in Paper love.” Teeth are fun, funny, and heart-warming journeys about the ~ Fred Wah, author of pursuit of identity and the crafting of home. Diamond Grill and Waiting for Saskatchewan With domestic tomfoolery and through deft observation and prismatic-voiced humour—including ironic asides— Lauralyn Chow’s Paper Teeth Lauralyn Chow reveals how family nourishes hope. is much more than a tasty dish “of stories: it is a feast for the senses, a carnival of delicious detail. The stories here clench at memory’s slippery taste, the intense dynamics of a family Lauralyn Chow was born, raised, and balanced on the hyphen FICTION educated in Edmonton, AB. Her first summer between expectation and job was at a radio station, and she later ISBN 13 978-1-926455-63-1 hope, laughter and pride and worked as the first in-house lawyer for the BISAC: FIC019000, forgiveness. These unforget- Calgary Board of Education. She has a B.A. FIC029000 table characters will utterly in Psychology, minoring in Sociology, and an 240 pp || 5.5 x 8.5” pb entrance readers with their LL.B. from the University of Alberta. When she September 2016 || $19.95 cat’s cradle of connection visits Hawaii, which she does frequently, she is and adaptation, solitude and often mistaken for a local and once won an belonging.” air ukulele contest during the Aloha Festivals. ~ Aritha van Herk, author of She currently resides in Calgary, AB. Restlessness NeWest Press || Asian Canadian Books | 4 Chorus of Mushrooms: Nunatak First th Fiction Series 20 Anniversary Edition # 5 by Hiromi Goto Since its publication in 1994, Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms has been recognized as a true classic of This novel is palpably Canadian literature. One of the initial entries in NeWest audible—full of the Press’ long-running Nunatak First Fiction Series, “ taste of words that whip Hiromi Goto’s inaugural outing was recognized at the through the Alberta Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes as the Best First Book in foothills and sting the the Caribbean and Canadian regions that year, as well as migrant mind. Hiromi becoming co-winner of the Canada-Japan book award. Goto has written a chorus Goto’s acclaimed feminist novel is an examination of the of place and family and Japanese Canadian immigrant experience, focusing on the imagination with such lives of three generations of women in modern day Alberta clarity and sensitivity to better understand themes of privilege and cultural that our tongues rest in identity. This reprinting of the landmark text includes an awe and our ears feel extensive afterword by Larissa Lai and an interview with the cleansed.” author, talking about the impact the book has had on the ~ Fred Wah, author Canadian literary landscape. of Diamond Grill and Waiting for Saskatchewan Such a love for words “is evident in Chorus Hiromi Goto is the award-winning author of many of Mushrooms, which FICTION books for youth and adults, including Chorus of Mushrooms, The Kappa Child, Hopeful Monsters, contains passages of ISBN 13 978-1-927063-48-4 breathtaking beauty.” BISAC: FIC019000, Wait Until Late Afternoon, Half World, and FIC054000 Darkest Light. Hiromi is also a mentor at Simon ~ The Globe and Mail 272 pp || 5.5 x 8.5” pb Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio, an editor, April 2014 || $19.95 and monther of two grown children. She is at work on graphic novels and short stories. NeWest Press || Asian Canadian Books | 5 Nunatak First Belinda’s Rings Fiction Series by Corinna Chong # 33 Half-Chinese, half-English teenager Grace (but she’d prefer it if you called her “Gray” instead) is not a perfect little super- mom-in-the-making like her older sister Jessica, and would Quirky and deeply felt, rather become a marine biologist than a mother—although “Belinda’s Rings reveals she does understand how to take care of her special-needs kid connections between brother Squid better than anyone else in her family. When her mothers and daughters, mother Belinda abruptly runs out on her family and flies across wives and husbands. the Atlantic in order to study crop circles in the English country- Chong’s voice is fresh side, Grace is left alone to puzzle out her life, the world, and her and soulful.” unique place within it. ~ Eden Robinson, author of Monkey Beach and With a warmth and a boisterous sense of humour reminiscent Son of a Trickster of Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness and Peter Hedges’ What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? author Corinna Chong introduces Chong’s talent is us to two lovable and thoroughly original female characters: “undeniable ... her future persnickety, precocious Grace, and her impractical, impulsive in CanLit is assured.” mother Belinda—very different women who nevertheless persis- tently circle back into each other’s hearts. ~ Dana Hansen, Quill & Quire [a]s vibrant as it is “original.” FICTION Calgary-born Corinna Chong is a writer, editor, ~ Chad Pelley, The and graphic designer based out of Kelowna, ISBN 13 978-1-927063-27-9 Globe and Mail BISAC: FIC054000, B.C. Her writing has appeared in Grain, FIC043000 NōD, Echolocation, and The Malahat Review. 264 pp || 5.5 x 8.5” pb She currently teaches English Literature at March 2013 || $19.95 Okanagan College and edits Ryga: A Journal of Provocations. Belinda’s Rings is her debut novel. NeWest Press || Asian Canadian Books | 6 In Flux: Writer As Critic th Series 20 Anniversary Edition # 12 by Roy Miki In this collection of essays edited by the University of Guelph’s Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki—poet, scholar, In these deeply compelling and member of the Order of Canada—investigates “and original essays, Roy the shifting currents of citizenship, globalization, Miki charts the past and cultural practices facing Asian Canadians today and future of the Asian through the connections of place and identity that Canadian writing while contending with the have been forged through our developing national urgency of the present. literature. Through a series of brilliant arguments on a range of Asian Canadian fiction and poetry, Miki tackles crucial questions of the relationship between Asian Canadian writing and Canadian literature, post- colonialism, transnational studies, globalization.
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