🏆 Winner – BEST CRIME NOVELLA – Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence 2022
A charming coming of age story wrapped around a murder, a betrayal and a national crisis.
Eleven-year-old Johnny tries to make sense of a murder, an absent father, and the FLQ Crisis through heart and humour-filled letters to hockey legend Dave Keon.
Wayne Ng channels his thirty years as a social worker in this raw and visceral tale of Hannah Belenko, a mother perpetually just hanging on. She schemes and scrapes by, unaware that her shortcomings and adherence to the family’s code of silence may lead to losing her son, Axel.
In 1977 Toronto, eighteen-year-old Johnny Wong tries to save his chaotic family and their Chinese restaurant from debt, by invoking the spirit of Bruce Lee and selling weed with deliveries. All this while juggling a first love, high school, and uncovering sordid family secrets.
Standalone sequel to Letters From Johnny.
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