Scarborough
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1551526778
ISBN 13
9781551526775
Category
Fiction
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Pages
272
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Description
This debut novel by playwright Catherine Hernandez made a lot of noise when it only existed as a manuscript: it won the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Emerging Writers Award in 2015, and has been shortlisted for the 2016 $50,000 Half the World Global Literati Award for best unpublished manuscript.
Scarborough is a low-income, multicultural east end neighborhood of Toronto, now the fourth largest metropolitan area in North America. Scarborough the novel traces the lives of its residents, rooted mainly in the experiences of three children: Bing, a gay Filipino boy who lives under the shadow of his father's mental illness while his mother works in a nail salon; his best friend Sylvie, an aboriginal girl who rides the waves of the shelter system and the complications of special-needs...
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Scarborough is a low-income, multicultural east end neighborhood of Toronto, now the fourth largest metropolitan area in North America. Scarborough the novel traces the lives of its residents, rooted mainly in the experiences of three children: Bing, a gay Filipino boy who lives under the shadow of his father's mental illness while his mother works in a nail salon; his best friend Sylvie, an aboriginal girl who rides the waves of the shelter system and the complications of special-needs...
Source: Publisher
Number of Copies
1
