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THAT TIME I LOVED YOU
Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new subdivision rise up, in new fiction from the author of the Toronto Book Award - shortlisted The Wondrous Woo.
"1979: This was the year the parents in my neighbourhood began killing themselves." From this opening line, That Time I Loved You keeps readers hooked until the very end. Reminiscent of Mona Awad's 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, the novel reveals children trying to make sense of a new environment that their parents cannot explain to them. The adults are lost when they discover that their idyllic new suburban landscape is home to dark secrets, and is not the haven that they thought it was.
Carrianne Leung, through the perspectives of multiple characters from different ethnic and social backgrounds, explores what happens behind closed doors in a community of strangers struggling to relate to each other. Always returning to the voice of young June, the adolescent daughter of Chinese-immigrant parents, That Time I Loved You is seen through the eyes of a sensitive and watchful child who is figuring out a world she doesn't yet understand. With dark humour June observes death and endures betrayal and heartbreak, all to the sound track of 1970s pop music, as she prepares to venture out in to the wider world.
The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth - new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not everyone's dreams come true. Moving from house to house, Carrianne Leung explores the inner lives behind the tidy front gardens and picture-perfect houses. Through June and her neighbours, Leung depicts the fine line where childhood meets the realities of adult life and examines, with insight and sharp prose, how difficult it is to be true to ourselves at any age.
Carrianne Leung's first novel, The Wondrous Woo (Inanna Publications) was a finalist for the 2014 City of Toronto Book Award. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies from OISE/University of Toronto and lives in Toronto.
Carrianne Leung, through the perspectives of multiple characters from different ethnic and social backgrounds, explores what happens behind closed doors in a community of strangers struggling to relate to each other. Always returning to the voice of young June, the adolescent daughter of Chinese-immigrant parents, That Time I Loved You is seen through the eyes of a sensitive and watchful child who is figuring out a world she doesn't yet understand. With dark humour June observes death and endures betrayal and heartbreak, all to the sound track of 1970s pop music, as she prepares to venture out in to the wider world.
The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth - new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not everyone's dreams come true. Moving from house to house, Carrianne Leung explores the inner lives behind the tidy front gardens and picture-perfect houses. Through June and her neighbours, Leung depicts the fine line where childhood meets the realities of adult life and examines, with insight and sharp prose, how difficult it is to be true to ourselves at any age.
Carrianne Leung's first novel, The Wondrous Woo (Inanna Publications) was a finalist for the 2014 City of Toronto Book Award. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies from OISE/University of Toronto and lives in Toronto.
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