{"id":11747,"date":"2020-02-14T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=11747"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:14:21","slug":"lindsay-wong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/lindsay-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lindsay Wong’s family memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family<\/em> was a bestseller. Now she follows up this debut with a novel for young adults. Wong has a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University. She is based in Vancouver, BC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Young adult)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My Summer of Love and Misfortune<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Simon Pulse, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn\u2019t get into any colleges, and she has no idea who she is or what she wants to do with her life. She\u2019s always felt torn about being Chinese-American, feeling neither Chinese nor American enough to claim either identity. She\u2019s just a sad pizza combo from Domino\u2019s, as far as she\u2019s concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an attempt to snap her out of her funk, Iris\u2019s parents send her away to visit family in Beijing, with the hopes that Iris would \u201creconnect with her culture\u201d and \u201cfind herself.\u201d Iris resents the condescension, but even she admits that this might be a good opportunity to hit the reset button on the apocalyptic disaster that has become her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this trip, Iris expects to eat a few dumplings, meet some family, and visit a tourist hotspot or two. Instead, she gets swept up in the ridiculous, opulent world of Beijing\u2019s wealthy elite, leading her to unexpected and extraordinary discoveries about her family, her future, and herself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tell Me Pleasant Things about Immortality: Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 2023.
PS8645.O46 T45 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Living forever isn\u2019t everything it\u2019s cracked up to be. Hearts can still break, looks can still fade, and money still matters, even in eternity. The ghosts, zombies, and demons in this collection are all shockingly human, and they\u2019re ready to spill their guts. Vanity, love, and tragedy are all candidly explored as the unfulfilled desires of the dead are echoed in the lives of modern-day immigrants. Story-by-story, the line between ghost and human, life and death, becomes increasingly blurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Villain Hitting For Vicious Little Nobodies: A Novel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Poor, vicious Locinda Lo is a nobody with a powerful witch for a grandmother and an undead corpse-kid-sister as her only friend. A broke MFA dropout living in\u202fVancouver with six roommates and zero job prospects, she\u2019s buried so deep in debt she might as well be six feet under\u2014and her family is\u202fin danger of being buried along with her.

Desperate to escape her financial woes and save her grandmother and sister, Locinda signs a contract with a nefarious company, Joyful Coffin & Co. Matchmaking Services, to be auctioned off as a corpse bride to the highest bidder.\u202fNext thing she knows, she\u2019s being smuggled underground into the damp caves where her training coffin awaits.

As Locinda prepares for a rich, dying dearly beloved to claim her as his bride-to-be in the Afterlife, her past becomes twisted with that of her grandmother, Baozhai. A feared and revered Villain Hitter, or witchy curse-monger, Baozhai\u2019s legacy stretches from 1920s China to the Battle of Hong Kong in the 40s to New York City thereafter. Across the generational divide, one thing becomes achingly clear to them both: you can\u2019t outrun your ghosts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Non-fiction (Memoir)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons and My Crazy Chinese Family<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018.
RC512 .W65 2018 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2018 The Globe 100 (Globe and Mail<\/em>, 1 Dec. 2018)
2019 Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize<\/a> (BC Book Prizes) (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lindsay Wong personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Penguin Random House Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Simon Pulse<\/a>, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Publishing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lindsay Wong’s family memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug-Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family was a bestseller. Now she follows up this debut with a novel for young adults. Wong has a BFA in creative writing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11747","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21387,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11747\/revisions\/21387"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}