The portrait of three generations of the Chan family living in Vancouver's Chinatown, where history repeats itself through the generations. Abandoned by her sisters, jobless and stuck in a city...
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Author: Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:Gus Van Sant's film and the '90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant's 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being...
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Author: Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:From its beginnings as a farming celebration marking the end of winter to its current role as a global party featuring good food, lots of gifts and public parades, Chinese New Year is a snapshot...
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Author: Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
Gus Van Sant's film and the '90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant's 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho, perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being...
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Author: Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:Longlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award
A masterful and gripping novel from “an undeniably talented writer” (Globe and Mail)
On a sunny...
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Author: Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
A look at how human migration has changed the world. Part of the nonfiction Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, with photographs and illustrations throughout.
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Author: Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
2016. Social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after the funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery: two dead girls curled into the bottom of Donna...
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Author: Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
A TODAY Show Recommended Read, this beautifully intimate memoir-in-pieces uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as a revelatory lens to explore family, identity, belonging,...