The Sweetest One

By (author): Melanie Mah

Cosmopolitan and curious seventeen-year-old Chrysler Wong suffers from a debilitating fear brought on by belief in a family curse. Three of her siblings have died after turning eighteen and venturing beyond the borders of their tiny rural Alberta town, and the fourth, her favourite, has recently left and is incommunicado. Is she destined to share their fate – or worse, doomed to live a circumscribed life?

AUTHOR

Melanie Mah

Melanie Mah was born in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, and currently resides in Toronto. The Sweetest One is her first novel.

Reviews

“With lines and imagery that are as unique as they are beautiful, Melanie Mah has crafted a story of an under-told Canadian experience with deft, humour and so much grit. The Sweetest One introduces us to the Wongs, a tragic Chinese-Canadian family in small town Alberta layered with isolation, anxiety, language and loss. Each member, even as they become absent, is a presence so huge you cannot help but love them. Mah’s work is exciting and exacting and precisely what was missing from CanLit.”
“[The Sweetest One] captivated me … Mah’s writing never lets the reader down right to the last page.”
– The Sun-Times

Awards

  • Trillium Book Award 2017, Winner
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    Cosmopolitan and curious seventeen-year-old Chrysler Wong suffers from a debilitating fear brought on by belief in a family curse. Three of her siblings have died after turning eighteen and venturing beyond the borders of their tiny rural Alberta town, and the fourth, her favourite, has recently left and is incommunicado. Is she destined to share their fate – or worse, doomed to live a circumscribed life?

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    Details

    Dimensions:

    256 Pages
    8.5in * 5.65in * 0.65in
    350gr

    Published:

    June 03, 2016

    Publisher:

    Cormorant Books

    ISBN:

    9781770864320

    Book Subjects:

    FICTION / Literary

    Language:

    eng

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