{"id":17560,"date":"2024-03-12T18:27:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T22:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=17560"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:41:05","slug":"lily-chu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/lily-chu\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Chu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Lily Chu is a Toronto-based novelist with Chinese Malaysian and other ethnic roots. Her romantic comedies are set in Toronto and feature strong Asian characters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

The Comeback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis (From the author’s website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ariadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything in her life is planned down to the minute: that\u2019s the way she likes it. If she\u2019s going to make partner in Toronto\u2019s most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when she comes home after yet another soul-sucking day to find an unfamiliar, gorgeous<\/em> man camped out in her living room, focus<\/em> is the last thing on her mind. Especially when her roommate explains this is Choi Jihoon, her cousin freshly arrived from Seoul to mend a broken heart. He just needs a few weeks to rest and heal; Ari will barely even know he\u2019s there. (Yeah, right.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jihoon is kindness and chaos personified, and it isn\u2019t long before she\u2019s falling, hard. But when one wrong step leads to a shocking truth, Ari finds herself thrust onto the world stage: not as the competent, steely lawyer she\u2019s fought so hard to become, but as the mystery woman on the arm of a man the entire world claims to know. Now with her heart, her future, and her sense of self on the line, Ari will have to cut through all the pretty lies to find the truth of her relationship\u2026and discover the Ariadne Hui<\/em> she\u2019s finally ready to be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Drop Dead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis (From the publisher’s website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Obituary writer Nadine Barbault doesn’t mind being called “Lady Death.” It suits the ice queen persona she’s cultivated to survive the fast-paced Toronto Herald. So when Nadine learns that famous (and reclusive) author Dot Voline has died, she doesn’t hesitate to run the obituary\u2026only to discover that Dot is very much alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadine’s screw-up has brought Wesley Chen of the rival Spear no end of joy\u2014she’s been a thorn in his extremely ambitious side for years. But the renewed interest in Dot also surfaced chatter about a mysterious past scandal. Intrigued, Wes goes to the source to learn more\u2014only to discover Nadine had the exact same idea\u2026and the infuriating woman isn’t willing to respect dibs. Typical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, Dot refuses to speak to either of the squabbling pair, but then they receive an unusual request\u2014work together, and Dot will share everything. The offer seems too good to be true\u2026and of course, it is: in a bitter twist of irony, Dot dies for real before she can finish recounting her story. Not all is lost, however. The estate’s executor allows Wes and Nadine access to Dot’s sprawling wonderland of a mansion for three weeks to find their answer. That’s three weeks of working together\u2026three weeks of endless sweltering in tight spaces\u2026three weeks of learning there could be something more between them than a desire to win at any cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And maybe, just maybe, under the rubble of all those could-have-beens they’ll uncover more than the secret of Dot Voline’s long-ago scandal\u2014and Lady Death will finally embrace what she’s wanted from life all along.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

The Stand-In<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis (From the author’s website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Gracie Reed is doing just fine. Sure, she was fired by her overly \u201cfriendly\u201d boss, and yes she still hasn\u2019t gotten her mother into the nursing home of their dreams, but she\u2019s healthy, she\u2019s (somewhat) happy, and she\u2019s (mostly) holding it all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when a mysterious SUV pulls up beside her, revealing Chinese cinema’s golden couple Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, Gracie\u2019s world is turned on its head. The famous actress has a proposition: due to their uncanny resemblance, Fangli wants Gracie to be her stand-in. The catch? Gracie will have to be escorted by Sam, the most attractive\u2014and infuriating\u2014man Gracie\u2019s ever met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it means getting the money she needs for her mother, Gracie\u2019s in. Soon Gracie moves into a world of luxury she never knew existed. But resisting Sam, and playing the role of an elegant movie star, proves more difficult than she ever imagined\u2014especially when she learns the real reason Fangli so desperately needs her help. In the end, all the lists in the world won\u2019t be able to help Gracie keep up this elaborate ruse without losing herself…and her heart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

The Takedown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sourcebooks Casablanca, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis (From the author’s website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For Dee Kwan, every day is the perfect day. No, really. She has a house she loves, a job she adores, and a ridiculously attractive \u201cnemesis\u201d who never seems to mind when she wins their favorite online game. How can life possibly get better? (It can\u2019t, obviously. It can only get much, much worse.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon Dee is forced to share her adorably cozy home with her parents and prickly estranged grandmother. Then she’s tossed into the deep end, tasked with cleaning up a scandal for intimidatingly chic luxury fashion firm Celeste. If that weren\u2019t enough, she discovers her hot-nemesis works there, too\u2026and Teddy is nothing like the man she thought she knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before she can cry foul, Teddy comes clean about his double life: he\u2019s the heir to the CEO and he needs her help to make Celeste a better place\u2014for everyone. But that means taking down the old guard\u2014including his father\u2014intent on standing in their way. Now in the center of a dizzying corporate coup, Dee is forced to decide whether she\u2019s ready to stop watching the world through rose-colored glasses and instead face the truth: about herself, about her feelings for Teddy, and about what she\u2019s willing to do to truly make a difference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lily Chu personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Sourcebooks Casablanca<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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