Presented by Word Vancouver and The Asian Canadian Writers Workshop
Book Launch: Kevin Chong and Lindsay Wong Guest Reading from Christine Lai
Come celebrate the joint book launches of Kevin Chong,The Double Life of Benson Yu, (Simon and Schuster) and Lindsay Wong,Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality (Penguin Random House). Enjoy readings and talks from both authors, as well as from featured guest author Christine Lai, Landscapes (Penguin Random House).
Books will be available for purchase and signing through the Chinatown Storytelling Centre’s Foo Hung Curios bookstore. Explore the CSC’s permanent exhibition as you mingle, and take a peek at local wares in Foo Hung Curios!
Food and beverage available on-site.
Kevin Chong
Kevin Chong is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the new novel The Double Life of Benson Yu. Those titles have been named books of the year by Globe and Mail, National Post, and Amazon.ca, listed for a CBC prize, a BC Book Prize, and a National Magazine Award, optioned for film and TV, and published in the US, Europe, and Australia. His creative nonfiction and journalism have recently appeared in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Rumpus, and the South China Morning Post. An Associate Professor at the UBC Okanagan, he lives in Vancouver with his family.
Lindsay Wong
Lindsay Wong is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo, which was a finalist for Canada Reads 2019. She has written a YA novel entitled My Summer of Love and Misfortune. Wong holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Winnipeg. Follow her on Twitter @LindsayMWong, Instagram @Lindsaywong.M, or visit www.lindsaywongwriter.com.
Christine Lai
Christine’s debut novel, Landscapes, is forthcoming from Doubleday Canada on May 23, 2023, and from Two Dollar Radio, in the U.S., on September 12. Landscapes was previously shortlisted for the inaugural Novel Prize. Christine holds a PhD in English Literature from University College London.