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Denison Avenue
by Christina Wong
This is a moving story about an elderly Chinese woman attempting to deal with the sudden loss of her husband. Although the book is written in English, most of the dialogue is rendered in a Chinese dialect, but not Chinese characters, which lends authenticity to the people and area of the city. This is followed by the translation so that everything is accessible to English-speaking readers.
The old lady is poor, and spends her days walking through the Chinatown district of Toronto, collecting cans and bottles which she can exchange for money. Meanwhile, she notices how the area has changed and remembers the happy times she spent there with her husband.
The second section of the book is a series of nearly 200 line drawings of the area, then and now, with detailed descriptions of the pictures, and showing how the area has changed and unfortunately declined.
This is an unusual and very creative book, one of the finalists for Canada Reads, 2024, and I think it should have won.
The old lady is poor, and spends her days walking through the Chinatown district of Toronto, collecting cans and bottles which she can exchange for money. Meanwhile, she notices how the area has changed and remembers the happy times she spent there with her husband.
The second section of the book is a series of nearly 200 line drawings of the area, then and now, with detailed descriptions of the pictures, and showing how the area has changed and unfortunately declined.
This is an unusual and very creative book, one of the finalists for Canada Reads, 2024, and I think it should have won.