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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Works to Watch For

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  Luminous Ink by Rabindranath Maharaj, Tessa McWatt and Dionne Brand (Eds)

  Cormorant Books

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  That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung

  Harper Collins

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  Last Night of the World by Joyce Wayne

  Mosaic Press

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  Adjacentland by Rabindranath Maharaj

  Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd

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  Generation Robot by Terri Favro

  SkyHorse Publishing

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  Floating City by Kerri Sakamoto

  Penguin Random House