Jen Sookfong Lee

Social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after her recent funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery: two dead girls curled into the bottom of her mother's chest freezers.

In the tradition of Amy Tan and Jhumpa Lahiri, a moving portrait of three generations of family living in Vancouver's Chinatown. From Knopf Canada's New Face of Fiction program, launching grounds for Yann Martel's Life of Pi and Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall on Your Knees, comes this powerfully evocative novel. At age eighteen, Seid Quan is the first in the Chan family to emigrate from China to Vancouver in 1913. Paving the way for a wife and son, he...