by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories Lindsay WongPublisher: Penguin Canada Book Description From the bestselling, Canada Reads-shortlisted author of The Woo-Woo comes a wild, darkly hilarious, and poignant collection of immigrant horror stories....
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
A Complex Coast: A Kayak Journey from Vancouver Island to Alaska David NorwellPublisher: Heritage House Book Description A soul-searching personal account of a young man’s 1,700-kilometre kayak journey from Victoria, BC, to Gustavus, Alaska, illustrated with...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
JAJ: A Haida Manga Michael Nicoll YahgulanaasPublisher: Douglas & McIntyre Book Description With gorgeous imagery, visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas brings to life the tumultuous history of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples and the...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Out of the Dark Julie LawsonPublisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited Book Description A follow-up of the bestselling, Geoffrey Bilson Award—and Victoria Book Prize—nominated A Blinding Light, focusing on the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion and the onset of the Great...
by megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com | Apr 11, 2024
Landbridge: Life in fragments Y-Dang TroeungPublisher: Alchemy by Knopf Canada Book Description In 1980, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60,000 refugees from Cambodia that then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged to relocate to Canada. As...
