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- Book Synopsis
- When nineteen-year-old Aki throws her first punch, the respectable 'good girl' discovers she's a fighter. Good girl, good student, good daughter: Aki has always done what her loving but demanding multiracial family expects. Far from her Vancouver home, she adjusts to life in London--studies, friends and a relationship with a wealthy but closeted Asian woman. Life is demanding, but Aki is coping until a violent incident triggers an unexpected response in the young Japanese-Latina-Canadian woman. She discovers that brutal bar-fighting relieves her stress and she begins a dangerous dual existence-obedient and accommodating by day and brawling by night. This is a novel about the need to reconcile competing cultures, traditions and values that also explores issues of sexual identity and violence.
- About The Author
- Emi Sasagawa is a settler, immigrant and queer woman of colour, living and writing on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territories of the xwm?θkw?y??m, Sḵwx_wú7mesh and Selilwitulh Nations. In her writing, she explores identity and belonging through the lenses of mixedness, queerness, oppression and privilege. Emi is a graduate of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University and is currently completing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. A resident of Vancouver, Atomweight is her first novel.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781990160165
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Tidewater Press, (04 May 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 260
- Weight
- 318 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 215.9 x 139.7 x 15.24 mm
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