1979: This was the year the parents in my neighbourhood began killing themselves. I was eleven years old and in Grade 6. Elsewhere in the world, big things were happening. McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal, Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran and Michael Jackson released his album Off the Wall.

—Carrianne Leung, “Excerpt: Grass”

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  Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta

  Astoria

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  All We Knew But Couldn't Say by Joanne Vannicola

  Dundurn Press

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  The Daughters of Silence by Rebecca Fisseha

  Goose Lane Editions

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  Night of Power by Anar Ali

  Penguin Random House

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  Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas

  Book*hug Press

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  Red Oblivion by Leslie Shimotakahara

  Dundurn Press