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 Nap-Away Motel by Nadja Lubiw-Hazard

  Palimpsest Press

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  Proof I Was Here by Becky Blake

  Wolsak & Wynn Publishers

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  Coconut Dreams by Derek Mascarenhas

  Book*hug Press

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  A Mind Spread Out on The Ground by Alicia Elliott

  Doubleday Canada