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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  Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta

  Astoria

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  That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung

  Harper Collins

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  The Emperor's Orphans by Sally Ito

  Turnstone Press

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  You and Me, Belonging by Rabindranath Maharaj

  Tightrope Books

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  The Beauty of the Moment by Tanaz Bhathena

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  City in Colour by May Q Wong

  Touchwood Editions