{"id":11313,"date":"2019-12-13T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=11313"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T18:29:52","slug":"roselle-lim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/roselle-lim\/","title":{"rendered":"Roselle Lim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Roselle Lim is a Filipino-Chinese author who lives in Southwestern Ontario. She moved to Canada from the Philippines as a teenager, and went on to graduate from York University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck & Fortune<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Berkley, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the news of her mother\u2019s death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn\u2019t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She\u2019s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother\u2019s restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neighborhood seer reads the restaurant\u2019s fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother\u2019s cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed. Unfortunately, Natalie has no desire to help them try to turn things around\u2014she resents the local shopkeepers for leaving her alone to take care of her agoraphobic mother when she was growing up. But with the support of a surprising new friend and a budding romance, Natalie starts to realize that maybe her neighbors really have been there for her all along.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Night for Day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Ace, Published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exes Ward Dunbar and Camille Buhay thought they would never see each other again. They had broken up to pursue their dream jobs on opposite sides of the country\u2014her to New York City, and him to Los Angeles. But years later, they unexpectedly reconnect in London, where they are interviewing for similar jobs. The spark they feel when they meet again is palpable\u2014the attraction comes back like muscle memory, reminding them of what they had lost. When Ward and Camille discover they both got the job working opposing shifts, they vow to give their relationship another try.

Ward starts the day shift and finds the immortal clientele unusual and dazzling. When he clocks out at the end of the day, he finds the door locked and himself trapped in the building. After a horrific first night shift contending with restless spirits and ghosts, Camille is also unable to escape. In their respective prisons, they discover that they\u2019re able to talk to each other a few minutes before dawn. This fleeting encounter incites longing for each other, but their promise to be together feels impossible. Because they are caught in the middle of a war of the gods\u2014and their choices will determine the outcome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sophie Go’s Lonely Hearts Club<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Berkley, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made quite difficult, however, when she is revealed as a fraud\u2014she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an inexperienced and unaccredited matchmaker, and soon Sophie becomes an outcast.

In dire search of clients, Sophie stumbles upon a secret club within her condo complex: the Old Ducks, seven septuagenarian Chinese bachelors who never found love. Somehow, she convinces them to hire her, but her matchmaking skills are put to the test as she learns the depths of loneliness, heartbreak, and love by attempting to make the hardest matches of her life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Berkley, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people\u2019s fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking expert from Shanghai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After her matchmaking appointment, Vanessa sees death for the first time. She decides that she can\u2019t truly live until she can find a way to get rid of her uncanny abilities. When her eccentric Aunt Evelyn shows up with a tempting offer to whisk her away, Vanessa says au revoir<\/em> to California and bonjour<\/em> to Paris. There, Vanessa learns more about herself and the root of her gifts and realizes one thing to be true: knowing one\u2019s destiny isn\u2019t a curse, but being unable to change it is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Roselle Lim personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Berkely<\/a>, an imprint of Penguin Random House<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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