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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

J.J. Lee

J.J. Lee is the author of the 2011 memoir The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son and a Suit. It was shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction, the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize and the 2012 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize.

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A Chinese-Canadian Tapestry

Individual stories, woven into a subtle picture of immigrant life December 2013
In Lives of the Family: Stories of Fate and Circumstance, the award-winning non-fiction author Denise Chong tells the story of Chinese immigrants and their adjustment to life in Canada during a time when their opportunities were limited. Chong’s first work in the area of family history focused on her own. The Concubine’s Children: Portrait of a Family Divided