The Blue Road

Text by Wayde Compton
Illustrated by April dela Noche Milne
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. She lives alone in a swamp made of ink, but with the help of Polaris, a will-o'-the-wisp, she embarks for the ...

I Promise

Text by Catherine Hernandez
Illustrated by Syrus Marcus Ware
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Trans Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Black Literature, Asian Literature, Gay Literature

Catherine Hernandez's literary career exploded with the 2017 publication of her award-winning novel Scarborough. Her latest, I Promise, marks her delightful return to children's literature, having published ...

Dear Scarlet

By Teresa Wong
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Health, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, Women's Literature

In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking ...

Death Threat

By Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Ness Lee
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated artist Ness Lee brings these letters and Shraya's ...

Double Melancholy

By C.E. Gatchalian
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Biography & Memoir, BIPOC, Asian Literature

According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experiences, and through which they construct their own identity. ...

Tonguebreaker

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature

In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. ...

Disintegrate/Dissociate

By Arielle Twist
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage ...

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Gay Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi ...

Care Work

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Social Issues, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Women's Literature, Health, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah ...

The Woo-Woo

By Lindsay Wong
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Social Issues, Women's Literature, Biography & Memoir

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian ...