Carrianne Leung Book Launch "That Time I Loved You"
Another Story Bookshop and Harper Collins Canada present the Toronto Book Launch for:
That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung
Featuring a reading by Carrianne Leung and conversation with Jael Richardson
Wednesday, March 28th
Lula Lounge - 1585 Dundas St W
Doors open @ 7pm/Event begins @7:30pm
Free - all welcome
Access info:
Entrance and bathroom are wheelchair accessible. For more information or for access/accommodation requests please email events@anotherstory.ca
Life is never as perfect as it seems.
Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new subdivision rise up, in new fiction from the author of the Toronto Book Award—shortlisted The Wondrous Woo
The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth—new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a Scarborough subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not everyone’s dreams come true.
Moving from house to house, Carrianne Leung explores the inner lives behind the tidy front gardens and picture-perfect windows, always returning to June, an irrepressible adolescent Chinese-Canadian coming of age in this shifting world. Through June and her neighbours, Leung depicts the fine line where childhood meets the realities of adult life, and examines, with insight and sharp prose, how difficult it is to be true to ourselves at any age.
CARRIANNE LEUNG is a fiction writer and educator. She holds a PhD in sociology and equity studies from the University of Toronto and works at OCAD University in Toronto. Her debut novel, The Wondrous Woo, was shortlisted for a 2014 Toronto Book Award.