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By Vivek Shraya
Categories: Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature winner

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Longlisted for Canada Reads

As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya ...

Faerie

By Eisha Marjara
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Women's Literature, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A bold YA novel about a South Asian teenager struggling with anorexia.

Just days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has resolved to end her life. The horror of becoming an adult, and leaving her childhood ...

AlliterAsian

Edited by Julia Lin, Allan Cho, and Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: Anthologies, Poetry, Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A wide-ranging anthology of Asian Canadian literature to celebrate 20 years of Ricepaper.

2015 marks the 20th anniversary of Ricepaper magazine, a pioneering periodical devoted to Asian-Canadian writing. ...

Decolonize Your Diet

By Luz Calvo & Catriona Rueda Esquibel
Categories: Cooking, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Vegan & Vegetarian, Health, Latin American Literature

International Latino Book Award winner, Best Cookbook

A return to indigenous Mexican-American cooking: delicious recipes for physical and spiritual healing.

More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet ...

Dirty River

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: LGBTQ+ Literature, Disability Literature, Biography & Memoir, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A transformative memoir by a queer disabled person of colour and abuse survivor.

Lambda Literary Award and Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction finalist

In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, ...

A Superior Man

By Paul Yee
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Canada, British Columbia, History, Fiction

Paul Yee's first novel for adults: an historical account of a Chinese man on a journey to find the mother of his son.

For more than thirty years, Paul Yee has written about his Chinese-Canadian heritage ...

Blackbird (movie tie-in edition)

By Larry Duplechan
Categories: Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, Fiction, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult

New edition of this important YA novel coinciding with the new film starring Mo'Nique.

First published in 1986, Blackbird is a funny, moving, coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay. Johnnie ...

The Outer Harbour

By Wayde Compton
Categories: BIPOC, Black Literature, Fiction, British Columbia

City of Vancouver Book Award Winner

In his debut story collection, poet Wayde Compton explores the concept of place and identity in which characters and space merge to make narrative. These interconnected ...

She of the Mountains

By Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Raymond Biesinger
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Fiction

A "Globe 100" Best Book of the Year (The Globe and Mail)

Lambda Literary Award finalist

In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she.

Two cells make up one cell. This is the mathematics behind creation. ...

Look Who's Morphing

By Tom Cho
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Trans Literature

First published to acclaim in Australia, Look Who's Morphing by Asian-Australian writer Tom Cho is a funny, fantastical, often outlandish collection of stories firmly grounded in pop culture. The book's ...