“You look just like him,” my Tita said as the bass of a jeering crowd from the Sunday night football game boomed behind her, echoing into the wooden
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Non-Fiction
Jennifer Chiu, a Vancouver Hakka-Canadian filmmaker, traces her family’s past in Kolkata, India and explores the impact of migration on identity, family, and cultural preservation in Clan of the Painted Lady. …
Sean Gunn was born in August 1948 in Vernon, BC, to Laura Joe (1922-2015) and Gun Wah Fong (1905-1988). His sister Sharon was born in 1952, followed by Shannon in …
Sean Gunn was born in Vernon, BC, in August 1948 and wants you to know that he is the son of a Chinese head tax payer, grandson of a railway …
Nukes. Bombs. War. North Korea. These are some of the words that Jenny Kwak, a 22-year-old Korean-Canadian, often heard when people discussed her heritage. Growing up in Toronto, she always …
In the summer, our Parisian half-cousin hosted a lunch at his condominium. I didn’t go. Not because I couldn’t, but because he’d added me to the group chat hours …
I have a running list: I love the planet too much, I want to ride a moped instead, I think cars are ugly, I know I’m going to hit someone, …
She is small and dark, a brown egg among a dozen white ones. At home she eats fried eggs with rice, while the white chicks eat theirs with toast and …
The first words I ever spoke were in Toisan, Cantonese; Ge Ge. Brother. I was calling for my big brother Jin. Two years later, my baby sister was born. Mei …
When her grandfather passed away, poet and essayist Mormei Zanke unconventionally honoured his memory – by writing about chop suey. This stir-fried meal of chopped vegetables and meat, all doused …