They try to navigate love and a healthy relationship - despite how much the odds are stacked up against them.Īndré Narbonne's debut novel Lucien & Olivia takes a comedically blunt look at love in 1980s HalifaxĪndré Narbonne is a Canadian professor and author. In 1980s Halifax, a time before mobile devices and social media, a marine engineer working on a Canadian tanker and a university student working on her philosophy degree randomly connect and are both repulsed by yet drawn to each other's differences. Lucien & Olivia is a comic novel that explores the often transactional nature of life and how humans interact with each other. Lucien & Olivia is a book by André Narbonne. Suk's next book, The Space Between Here and Now, will be published in fall 2023. Sarah Suk is a YA writer living in Vancouver. Writers' Trust of Canada launches program to support books by BIPOC writers launched during pandemic.Valerie and Wes try to resist their growing attraction to one another, while competing to be the most successful business in school. Wes Jung is the new kid at their school - after seeing the enthusiasm from his new classmates for the K-pop-branded beauty products that his mother gave him to help him make new friends, he comes up with an entrepreneurial idea that could help him pay for the music school he hopes to attend after graduation. Made in Korea is a YA rom-com about two teenagers who are running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school. Valerie Kwon and her cousin Charlie run a successful student-run enterprise called V&C K-BEAUTY. (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Farisa Thang) Made in Korea is a YA novel by Sarah Suk.

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