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: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, Poetry

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: BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Lesbian Literature, Gay Literature, Black Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's

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 ...

Death Threat

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

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award and Doug Wright Award

In the fall of 2017, the acclaimed writer and musician Vivek Shraya began receiving vivid and disturbing transphobic hate mail from a stranger. Celebrated ...

Double Melancholy

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

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. ...

Dear Scarlet

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

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 ...

The Walking Boy

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

Tonguebreaker

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

Finalist, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

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

Care Work

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

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: Women's Literature, Social Issues, Biography & Memoir, BIPOC, Asian Literature

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Winner, Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize; Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

In ...