This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends. Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something (anything!) to make her senior year different--to finally give her some stories worth telling. When she meets Ash Chan, it seems like she's getting what she asked for. Ash is confident, intensely independent, and hell on a skateboard--nothing like anyone Jay knows and exactly how she wishes she could be. Offering to film Ash's submission to an upcoming skate contest introduces Jay to a side of Vancouver she's never seen and gives her the chance to push back against the expectations placed on her. But Ash has a secret, a...
This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends. Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something (anything!) to make her senior year different--to finally give her some stories worth telling. When she meets Ash Chan, it seems like she's getting what she asked for. Ash is confident, intensely independent, and hell on a skateboard--nothing like anyone Jay knows and exactly how she wishes she could be. Offering to film Ash's submission to an upcoming skate contest introduces Jay to a side of Vancouver she's never seen and gives her the chance to push back against the expectations placed on her. But Ash has a secret, a...
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Li Charmaine Anne (she/they) grew up in the unceded Coast Salish territories otherwise known as Vancouver, BC. Her first novel Crash Landing won the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award in Young People’s Literature – Text. Shorter works by Charmaine can be found in The Tyee, ZO...
1 books in catalog
Li Charmaine Anne (she/they) grew up in the unceded Coast Salish territories otherwise known as Vancouver, BC. Her first novel Crash Landing won the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award in Young People’s Literature – Text. Shorter works by Charmaine can be found in The Tyee, ZO...
