{"id":12456,"date":"2020-08-21T18:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T22:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=12456"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:12:44","slug":"eddy-boudel-tan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/eddy-boudel-tan\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddy Boudel Tan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Eddy Boudel Tan is a second-generation Asian Canadian writer who lives in Vancouver, B.C. Boudel Tan has a background in marketing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

After Elias<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Dundurn, 2020.
E-book<\/a> (Access restricted to members of the university community)<\/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

When the airplane piloted by Elias Santos crashes one week before their wedding day, Coen Caraway loses the man he loves and the illusion of happiness he has worked so hard to create. The only thing Elias leaves behind is a recording of his final words, and even Coen is baffled by the cryptic message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numb with grief, he takes refuge on the Mexican island that was meant to host their wedding. But as fragments of the past come to the surface in the aftermath of the tragedy, Coen is forced to question everything he thought he knew about Elias and their life together. Beneath his flawed memory lies the truth about Elias \u2014 and himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the damp concrete of Vancouver to the spoiled shores of Mexico, After Elias<\/em> weaves the past with the present to tell a story of doubt, regret, and the fear of losing everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction<\/a> (Publishing Triangle) (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

The Rebellious Tide<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Dundurn, 2021.
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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

Sebastien has heard only stories about his father, a mysterious sailor who abandoned his mother thirty years ago with nothing but a newborn baby. But when his mother dies after a lifetime of struggle, he becomes obsessed with finding an explanation \u2014 perhaps even revenge.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200bThe father he\u2019s never met is Kostas, the commanding officer of a luxury liner sailing the Mediterranean. Posing as a member of the ship\u2019s crew, Sebastien stalks his unwitting father in search of answers to why he disappeared so many years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a public assault triggers outrage among the ship\u2019s crew, Sebastien finds himself entangled in a revolt against the oppressive ruling class of officers. As the clash escalates between the powerful and the powerless, Sebastien uncovers something his father has hidden deep within the belly of the ship \u2014 a disturbing secret that would force him to confront everything he\u2019s always wondered and feared about his own identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2022 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction <\/a>(Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

The Tiger and the Cosmonaut<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Viking\/Penguin Random House Canada, 2025.
PS8603.O9324 T54 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Casper Han grew up the dutiful son of immigrants who never felt entirely welcome in their remote corner of British Columbia. Now an adult, living in Vancouver with a boyfriend whose privilege he quietly resents, Casper rarely returns to his hometown, the site of a grief his family doesn\u2019t discuss: the loss of his twin brother, Sam.

Over twenty years have passed since Sam went missing, and a crisis brings Casper and his siblings back. Their father has vanished, only to be found wandering the vast woods beyond the family home, confused and clutching a pair of scissors, seemingly trapped in the memory of that tragic night. In order to move forward, the Han family must finally confront the past and untangle the mystery of what really happened to Sam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2025 Giller Prize<\/a> (Finalist)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction From the Future of Food<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by A.G. Pasquella and Jeff Dupuis.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2025.
PS8323.F66 D48 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boudel Tan, Eddy. “Lorenzo and the Lasting Fig.” In Devouring Tomorrow<\/em>, ed. by A.G. Pasquella and Jeff Dupuis, 169-187.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology (Short story)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Boudel Tan, Eddy. “Egg Tart Reconstructed.” In The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction<\/em>, edited by Dan K. Woo. Hamilton: Buckrider Books, 2023, 83-88.
PS8323.C5 S65 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Eddy Boudel Tan personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Dundurn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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