by Jack Wang
The Chinese diaspora is dispersed across continents and decades in Jack Wang's magnificent debut, We Two Alone (selected as one of the CBC's 2020 Best Canadian Fiction and Quill & Quire's 2020 Books of the Year). Wang's seven-story collection traverses North America, Europe, Africa and Asia, pausing at pivotal moments over a century of history, each presented through a peripatetic Chinese lens.
Wang's opening story, "The Valkyries," features a Vancouver orphan teen, indentured to an opium-addicted laundry
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by Yusef Salaam
They called Yusef Salaam and the other boys now known as the Exonerated Five "super-predators." Yet Salaam is much more than those initial racist media reports made him out to be, and his book Better Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice is a testament to his leadership and service. An award-winning motivational speaker and bestselling author (Punching the Air, co-authored with Ibi Ziboi), Salaam, who spent nearly seven years in jail after he was wrongly convicted of rape and assault,
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by Cynthia L. Smith
Muscogee Creek author Cynthia Leitich Smith (Ancestor Approved; Hearts Unbroken) reimagines J.M. Barrie's beloved yet problematic children's classic Peter Pan in this wry, immersive fantasy about female friendship, inclusivity and the meaning of family.
Although relatives remember a recent time "when the girls were inseparable," the friendship between 12-year-old stepsisters Wendy Darling and Lily Roberts has hit turbulence. Their parents are separating for the summer, with Wendy and her father traveling to
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