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  • The Hunger We Pass Down

    A Novel

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    **AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2026 • LONGLISTED FOR THE SUNBURST AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE JIM DEVA PRIZE FOR WRITING THAT PROVOKES • FINALIST FOR THE CRIME WRITERS OF CANADA PETER ROBINSON AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVELFrom the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the demons passed down through five generations of women in a Chinese Canadian ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

    A Memoir

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    **Finalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award and the City of Vancouver Book Award.Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books CanadaA TODAY Show Recommended ReadThis 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, grief, and the power of female rage.**For ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The End of East

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    A moving portrait of three generations of the Chan family living in Vancouver’s ChinatownSammy Chan was sure she’d escaped her family obligations when she fled Vancouver six years ago, but with her sister’s upcoming marriage, her turn has come to care for their aging mother. Abandoned by all four of her older sisters, jobless and stuck in a city she resents, Sammy finds herself cobbling together a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Whatever Gets You Through

    Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    Personal stories of surviving after the trauma of sexual assault.In the era of #MeToo, we’ve become better at talking about sexual assault. But sexual assault isn’t limited to a single, terrible moment of violence: it stays with survivors, following them wherever they go.Through the voices of twelve diverse writers, Whatever Gets You Through offers a powerful look at the narrative of sexual ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Conjoined

    A Novel

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    Longlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary AwardA masterful and gripping novel from “an undeniably talented writer” — Globe and MailOn a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery — two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Better Mother

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    From a master of family dynamics comes this vivid tale of two misfits who find each other while stumbling toward their own true identities.In 1958, eight-year-old Danny Lim has been sent to buy cigarettes for his father, when he realizes that he has lost the money. Frantic, he rushes through Vancouver's Chinatown and behind a nightclub, where he sees Miss Val, a long-time burlesque dancer. Danny ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Conjoined

    A Novel

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    Narrated by Sabryn Rock ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 26 min

    On a sunny May morning, social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother’s belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery — two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother’s chest freezers. She remembers a pair of foster children who lived with the family in 1988: Casey and Jamie Cheng — troubled, beautiful, and wild teenaged sisters from Vancouver ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Good Mom on Paper

    Writers on Creativity and Motherhood

    Edited by Stacey May Fowles, Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    Series Book 13 - Essais Series
    The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it?Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gentlemen of the Shade

    My Own Private Idaho

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    Series Book 7 - Pop Classics
    Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternativeGus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding Home

    The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    Illustrated by Drew Shannon ...
    Series Book 1 - Orca Think
    What drives people to search for new homes?From war zones to politics, there are many reasons why people have always searched for a place to call home. In Finding Home: The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees we discover how human migration has shaped our world. We explore its origins and the current issues facing immigrants and refugees today, and we hear the first-hand stories of people who have ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Shadows of Destiny: Shattered Throne

    by Jen Junn Lee ...
    Under the tyrant, Avalora has become a prison. When Aria and Aric infiltrate the Grand Tournament to reclaim their home, a deadly trap leaves them reeling from a devastating loss. Reeling from the tragedy, Aria turns to the dangerous Syndicate for help, forging an alliance after she realises her lone strength is not enough. As the rebellion rises, Aria faces an impossible choice: become the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • 中国农历新年动物生肖

    by Jen Sookfong Lee ...
    Translated by Kileasa Che Wan Wong ...
    Drawing on the myth of the Chinese zodiac, The Animals of Chinese New Year follows twelve animals as they speed across a river, competing to represent the imminent new year in a race held by the Jade Emperor, the most powerful Chinese god.Each animal competes in its own unique way. The ox works hard, the tiger is brave, the dog smiles kindly, but who will win? Bright photographs of babies ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD