Sugar Kids

By (author): Taslim Burkowicz

Baby’s a skater girl trying to get through high school like everyone else. Except she loves Victorian gothic fiction, experiences violent tremors, and gets visits from the ghost of her twin. Ravi never really died for her, not like her mom did last year. When Baby gets kicked out of the house for not conforming with her Indo-Canadian family’s gender expectations, everything changes. Her new, glamorous friend Delilah introduces her to all-night parties held in exclusive clubs, abandoned warehouses, and magical cornfields — the underground rave scene in 1990s Vancouver.

But how will Baby fit into this new world?

Join Baby on her wild search for belonging through the landscape of acid house, complete with extraordinary music, retro fashion, and copious substance use. Alongside eccentric DJs, misanthropic skaters, and denim-clad ghosts, Baby explores her sexual and cultural identity. A coming-of-age tale, Sugar Kids is an homage to the subcultures animating the nineties.

AUTHOR

Taslim Burkowicz

Taslim Burkowicz’s work is inspired both by her Indo-Canadian heritage and her global travels and experiences. She has published two previous novels, The Desirable Sister and Chocolate Cherry Chai, which was listed on CBC Books’ 2017 Fall Preview. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science and education from Simon Fraser University. Taslim resides with her husband and three boys in Surrey, B.C., where she focuses on writing, running and dancing.


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“ltpgtHow lovingly can one be haunted In Taslim Burkowiczs dazzling fourth novel let Baby take you by the hand leading you from her grandmothers toosweet chai and her twin brothers ghost into her phantasmagorical adventures in the West Coast rave scene with its endless glitter pink wigs pulsating beats and chemical highs Populated with cobbledtogether skateboards white peoples incense and crosscultural desires ltigtSugar Kidsltigt is a love letter to the Vancouver of the 1990s to transforming oneself over and over again and to every sparkling incarnation of enchantment heartache and longingltpgt”
Catherine Lewis author of Zipless

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Dimensions:

224 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * .25in
.25lb
.25lb

Published:

April 25, 2024

Publisher:

Fernwood Publishing

ISBN:

9781773636757

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Own Voices

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Language:

eng

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