Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canadian Region)!Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award!Hiromi Goto’s debut novel has become a Canadian classic. It is a powerful narrative of three generations of Jap...
The last thing twelve-year-old Sayuri wants to do is move to the country, on "a trip to eternal boredom." Sayuri loves her life in the city and her achievements as a competitive swimmer. But her father, a nurse, has found a job in rural Alberta.
S...
"James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award for Science Fiction and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Winner, 2001
Sunburst Award Nomination for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, 2002"
From the award-winning author of "Chorus of Mushrooms," which won the C...
“Hopeful monsters” are genetically abnormal organisms that, nonetheless, adapt and survive in their environments. In these devastating stories, the hopeful monsters in question are those who will not be tethered by familial duty nor bound by the ...
Melanie Tamaki is human, but her parents aren't. They are from Half World, a Limbo between this world and the afterlife, and her father is still there. When her mother disappears, Melanie must follow her to Half World--and neither of them may return ...
What do a sunburnt ass, the 1898 New Westminster fire, a dogfish woman, and unrest and a ghost in 1930's China have in common? They're all in emerge 2011, the newest student anthology from The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University....
Poet and novelist Hiromi Goto effortlessly blends wry, observational slice-of-life literary fiction with poetic magical realism in this tender and surprising graphic novel Shadow Life, with haunting art from debut artist Ann Xu.
When Kumiko...