Lili Zeng was born in Guangzhou, China, and moved to Montreal with her parents as a child. She holds a PhD in biophysics from McGill University and is also a classically trained pianist.
Fiction
Dear Haider
Montreal: Baraka Books, 2024.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Born in China and raised in Montreal, Liz is about to land in Germany for a summer physics internship at the end of her freshman year. Eager for a new beginning, she hopes to break free of her unrealized childhood dream of becoming a pianist, a dead-end romantic relationship, and the tug of war between her Chinese and Canadian identities.
In Germany, she meets fellow intern Haider, an Indian Muslim from Toronto, and they fall in love against expectations. But summer doesn’t last forever. Once they return to Canada, culture clashes and family disapproval threaten to pull them apart. As her sense of self is pushed dangerously close to a tipping point, Liz must summon the courage to survive the chaos that her life has become.
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