Carrianne Leung Toronto Book Launch "That Tim v Lula Lounge
Another Story Bookshop and Harper Collins Canada present the Toronto Book Launch for
That Time I Loved You by Carrianne Leung
Featuring a reading by Carrianne Leung and conversation with Jael Richardson
Wednesday, March 28th
NEW VENUE: Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas St
Doors open at 6:00pm
Event starts at 7:30pm
Free admission
The Lula Lounge chef will create three 2-course meals each priced at $29. There will be an appetizer and an entree. One will be Chinese-Canadian, one will be Jamaican and one will be Indian. The chef will name them after the appropriate characters in the book. One of dishes will be vegetarian ... and we'll be sure to have a kids menu item available too. We'll offer our regular desserts a la carte.DINNER RESERVATIONS GUARANTEE SEATING call 416.588.0307 to reserve your table/ lula.ca
Access info:
Entrance and bathroom are wheelchair accessible. For more information or for access/accommodation requests please email events@anotherstory.ca
Life is never as perfect as it seems.
Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new subdivision rise up, in new fiction from the author of the Toronto Book Award—shortlisted The Wondrous Woo
The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth—new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a Scarborough subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not everyone’s dreams come true. Moving from house to house, Carrianne Leung explores the inner lives behind the tidy front gardens and picture-perfect windows, always returning to June, an irrepressible adolescent Chinese-Canadian coming of age in this shifting world. Through June and her neighbours, Leung depicts the fine line where childhood meets the realities of adult life, and examines, with insight and sharp prose, how difficult it is to be true to ourselves at any age.
CARRIANNE LEUNG is a fiction writer and educator. She holds a PhD in sociology and equity studies from the University of Toronto and works at OCAD University in Toronto. Her debut novel, The Wondrous Woo, was shortlisted for a 2014 Toronto Book Award.
Jael Richardson is an author, founder and artistic director of FOLD, the Festival of Literary Diversity. Jael is the author of two books telling the story of her father, Chuck Ealey. Both books tackle issues of race, identity, prejudice and the power of perseverance. The Stone Thrower children’s book came out in 2016, while the memoir The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lesson, a Father’s Life received a CBC Bookie Award and earned Richardson an Acclaim Award and a My People Award as an Emerging Artist. Through this memoir Jael contrast her father's story, growing up during the American civil rights movement with Richardson's own experiences as a young, black Canadian striving to understand her sense of identity in the world.
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