Scarborough

By Catherine Hernandez
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Youth Culture, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

NOW A MOTION PICTURE directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson; screenplay by Catherine Hernandez

Trillium Book Award and City of Toronto Book Award finalist; Edmund White Debut Fiction Award finalist; ...

a place called No Homeland

By Kai Cheng Thom
Categories: Women's Literature, Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature

Winner, Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers; American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book; Finalist, Lambda Literary Award and Publishing Triangle Award for ...

Such a Lovely Little War

By Marcelino Truong
Translated by David Homel
Categories: Biography & Memoir, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Youth Culture, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, History

This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese
diplomat and his French ...

The Boy & the Bindi

By Vivek Shraya
Illustrated by Rajni Perera
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Children's

In this beautiful children's picture book by Vivek Shraya, author of the acclaimed God Loves Hair, a five-year-old boy becomes fascinated with his mother's bindi, the red dot commonly worn by South Asian ...

even this page is white

By Vivek Shraya
Categories: Poetry, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Women's Literature, 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: Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Children's & Young Adult, Young Adult, Women's 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, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Fiction

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. ...

Dirty River

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

A transformative memoir by a queer disabled woman 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: British Columbia, Canada, BIPOC, Asian Literature, 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 ...

She of the Mountains

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

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. ...