5/18/2023 0 Comments The woo woo by lindsay wong![]() It made the top 100 books for the Globe and Mail list in 2018 and, last month, it was placed on the long list for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal of Humour.Ĭritics have heaped praise on The Woo-Woo, calling it a “heart-breaking,” “tragic” and “touching” comedic portrait of her family as she grew up on Westwood Plateau in Coquitlam. This month, it took a prestigious BC Book Prize from the West Coast Prize Society the book was also a finalist for CBC’s Canada Reads competition and shortlisted for the $60,000 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust of Canada Prize for Non-fiction. Since Arsenal Pulp Press published Wong’s memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family last year, the author has had little time to catch her breath. And, the Pinetree secondary graduate admits, the experience of seeing her debut book gain such national attentional has been “totally unexpected and quite surreal.” ![]()
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