Lindsay Wong
Featured on the Summer issue cover of BC BookWorld, Lindsay Wong became a finalist for the the 2019 edition of CBC’s Toronto-centric Canada Reads! for her first book, The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family (Arsenal Pulp, 2018), a rarity for a B.C.-published book. Also shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, this darkly comedic memoir of growing up in Vancouver concerns mental health and humor within a Chinese Canadian household. (Canada Reads is an annual “Battle of the Books” in which five people described as celebrities champion their favourite books in a competition to decide the winning title “that the entire country will be reading.”) The book was reviewed in B.C. BookWorld by Joan Givner. See her review below. Imogene Lim has also reviewed the The Woo-Woo for The Ormsby Review. See: https://bcbooklook.com/2019/01/17/466-chinese-ghosts-chinese-identity/
Presented at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt in 2019.