The Lost Century

By Larissa Lai
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Fiction

Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war, colonialism and queer experience during Japan's occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. ...

The Future Is Disabled

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Disability Literature, Social Issues, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature, Biography & Memoir

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing? And ...

Dandelion

By Jamie Chai Yun Liew
Categories: Fiction, Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature

Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs.

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee ...

Beast at Every Threshold

By Natalie Wee
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

A formidable collection of poems that deconstructs the notion of "otherness" through folklore and myth.

An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural ...

How to Fail as a Popstar

By Vivek Shraya
Foreword by Brendan Healy
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

The first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya, about fame and personal transformation.

Described as "cultural rocket fuel" by Vanity Fair, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art, music, novels, ...

Iron Goddess of Mercy

By Larissa Lai
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Poetry, Women's Literature

Iron Goddess of Mercy by Lambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (for the novel The Tiger Flu) is a long poem that captures the vengeful yet hopeful movement of the Furies mid-whirl and dance with them ...

God Loves Hair: Tenth Anniversary Edition

Text by Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Juliana Neufeld
Foreword by Cherie Dimaline
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity.

In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first ...

Render

By Sachiko Murakami
Categories: Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature

Governor General's Literary Award finalist

Searing, intimate poems that render a history of trauma, addiction, and recovery through dreams and waking experience.

Render (v. tr. ): to submit, as for consideration; ...

I Promise

Text by Catherine Hernandez
Illustrated by Syrus Marcus Ware
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, Asian Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's, Trans Literature, Lesbian 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: Women's Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Health

Longlisted for Canada Reads; Finalist, City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize

In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum ...